Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.