Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's so much to examine, so much to contemplate. I have enormous enthusiasm when I start a new project but then there's the meetings and the counter-meetings, the rehearsals, the struggles. You have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get your dreams realised.

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.

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.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.