I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing