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

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.

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

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

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

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.

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