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

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

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

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

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.

What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound experiences which have some satisfaction and can be retained in your four senses and your imagination for the rest of your life?

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.