Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

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

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

Cinema has reached a dead end.