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I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

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

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.