I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.
The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.