Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words..

English culture is highly literary-based..

Continuity is boring..

We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, ev….

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it..

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature..

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teachin….

What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to..

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all t….

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

It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the man….

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

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian..

I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. C….

Cinema has reached a dead end..

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure..

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention..

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and jus….

Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to ….

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most pe….

All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run….