Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

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?

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

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

To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.