Mike Hodges

[on Flash Gordon (1980)] The only improvised $27-million movie ever made.

I don't really have anything "to say", I'd just like to eke out the comic side of the human predicament. Show less «

We don't seem to realize that our lives are already gripped in the steely, dehumanizing equivalent of a totalitarian state. At the moment, we see it as benign, but it won't always be like that. Show less «

A film is alive. You shouldn't stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over research, or walk in with an exact idea of how things should be done. Show less «

I really want to take the audience by the hand and take them somewhere they haven't been before.

America puzzled me from the moment I went there in the mid-1960s. Its motivation was totally different from that in the UK of those days (but sadly no longer). But what was it? I began to realize it was a culture based heavily on addiction. The object of every manufacturer was to make people become addicted to something, anything. Show less «