The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.