I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.