You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.

Sometimes beauty can be a trap.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.