We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.