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

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

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.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

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

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.