"Art's like a shark. If it stops swimming, it drowns. So I like to put myself in places of insecurity.…

films that display a genuine understanding of occult/paranormal concepts, intentional or not, allowing said esoterica to leak into the mainstream.…

top 30, not ranked, one film per director.

subject to change at my arbitrary whims.

[1/21/23] update: expanded the list…

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium…

the rise and fall of analog anti-naturalism: beginning in the late 70s, many films, especially hollywood genres, began to move…

"I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime."

"In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and…

"I am an artist whose art-form is making cinema for a group of people to watch together. That's what I…

"I think, in my own films, the rhythms come from life. One of the reasons I love Hou and Ozu…

in tangier in 1960, the beat writer william burroughs met a sea captain called captain clark, who boasted to him…

“Since I think of everybody as a friend, because I really appreciate everybody that likes me and my movies, I…

"In fact, I prefer not to have a very concrete script before I start to shoot a movie. The reason…