I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.