“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

Speech at the Hotel Exhibition, Olympia, 1969.[citation needed]
Leader of the Opposition

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 10 (p. 123)

Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 133
Context: [About Mirror] I had the greatest difficulty in explaining to people that there is no hidden, coded meaning in the film, nothing beyond the desire to tell the truth. Often my assurances provoked incredulity and even disappointment. Some people evidently wanted more: they needed arcane symbols, secret meanings. They were not accustomed to the poetics of the cinema image. And I was disappointed in my turn. Such was the reaction of the opposition party in the audience; as for my own colleagues, they launched a bitter attack on me, accusing me of immodesty, of wanting to make a film about myself.

David Cay Johnston; How The One Percent Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (Jun 23, 2009)