Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated. - Peter Greenaway

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

Hadrian... as you know an architect of note... put a lot of faith in stones... died peacefully... planning a Temple to Wisdom... still, he's dead. Nero -- best not to talk about him -- burnt Rome, caused untold misery, deserved to die; died screaming in a summerhouse.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.