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I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

I do not see scales as abstract.

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.