I prefer living in color.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.