ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.