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

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

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

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

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

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

Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.