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I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.