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.

Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

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

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.

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

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.