There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.

I remember when I first started to be photographed, people couldn't understand how it was possible to go around with no eyelashes, no eyebrows. Now it's much more accepted for people not to wear eyelashes or lipstick or whatever they do, but then it was quite freaky. Um, a kind of boiled look.

One of the things about Derek Jarman was that he was a painter who worked alone when he painted, but I firmly believe that one of the reasons he made films was for the company. He made filmmakers of all of us, that's the truth. I don't mean he necessarily made directors, but he made us filmmakers. Because we lived in a state of mutual responsibility for what we made.