I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

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

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.