Knife in the Water

“Knife in the Water. When I start cinema, I come across with this movie and it influenced me a lot. You know, just in a boat, three person, a camera, a great movie. You don't need luxury in cinema to make a good movie. I think and sometimes luxury even be a burden.”

“Knife in the Water I saw when it first came out which must have been in the early 60s. Polanski's capacity to deal with both the literal aspects of a story and the abstract, I've thought about it many times over the years because making my own movies, the relationship between the literal and the abstract, how you take movies, a very literal medium, and how you take something specific, suggest more general ideas. Knife in the Water was a movie that helped me understand how to think in film terms.”

“I just want to like the first criterion DVDs I ever bought it was a Knife in the Water it was for a paper I wrote on Polanski I'm afraid to watch this I'm afraid about how offended I'll probably be but I worship this film and I worship the short that comes with it Two Men in a Wardrobe this is spectacular.”

“The movie that he did have me see for that, for Ripley, was actually Knife in the Water. It was to get a sense of the aesthetic and the boat work we were going to do. But I remember it being wonderful.”