The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.