My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.