I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.
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.