The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.