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

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

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

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.

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