My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Foreign to knowledge, mystery to senses, alien to emotion: LOVE.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.