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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.