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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.