I'm A Much Better Filmmaker Than Painter.

I Had A Daughter Who Was 9 Years Old And I Had The Feeling I Wasn't Going To Be A Real Parent If I Didn't Quit Making Movies For A While And Spend Time With Her. I Also Felt That I'd Made Enough Movies And Said What I Had To Say At The Time.

I Seem To Have Been Able To Make A Career Out Of Doing What I Feel Like Doing, So Why Not Keep Doing It? What's Corrupting Is Wanting To Be More Important. You Want To Be More Arty - You Get Your Identity From That. Or You Get Your Identity Out Of Making More Money.

I Don't Belong To Any Clubs, And I Dislike Club Mentality Of Any Kind, Even Feminism - Although I Do Relate To The Purpose And Point Of Feminism. More In The Work Of Older Feminists, Really, Like Germaine Greer.

That's Just How I See Things On A Base Level: There's So Much Going On. Or At Least I Like To Have That Feeling. It's Part Of Being Interested In Notions Of Reality Apart From Storytelling. I Don't Know If It Has Something To Do With Having An Art School Education, Which Makes You Aware Of The Way Visuals Speak, Or Makes You Trust Them More.

I Had This Spooky Psychological Thing About 'the Piano' Before It Began, Which Was How Everybody Was Going To Go Nuts On The Set. Because A Film Tends To Set Up The Way People Are Going To Behave.