I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.