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We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.