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

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.

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

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.