It's A Luxury To Be Able To

I'm A Much Better Filmmaker Than Painter. But Studying It Did Make Me Visually Acute And Taught Me Lessons Like Being Economic: Say Something Once And You Don't Have To Say It Again.

Only When You Are Relaxed Can You See What's Going On.

What I Have Learned From My Work Up To Now, Is To Try To Be Open, But Also Protect Myself By Not Letting The Good And The Evil Get Too Much Importance.

With 'bright Star' And With 'the Piano,' Too, I Felt A Kind Of Sadness About It Being In Such A Different Era, Because Of My Lack Of Experience With The Era. And One Of The Ways I'd Get Over It Is To Remind Myself That Every Film, Even If It's Contemporary, Creates Its Own World.

Between 18 And 26 I Acted Professionally, On The Stage And A Little Bit On Television. Acting Is Okay, But It's Quite Pressurized. Then I Went To England - I Wanted To Reinvent Myself.