You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it's not the theatre, it's not done over again. It's done in bits and pieces. Things are happening which you can't get again. I forbid anyone to say "Cut", the soundman, the operator, or whatever.

They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.