I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.