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

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

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

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.