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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.