The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

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

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

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of my mind - let's give up this silly business of film-making and concentrate on something more satisfying and worthwhile.

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

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.

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.