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

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

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.

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.

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.

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