The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.
One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!
Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.
When I'm doing TV, it's more of a choreographed dance, in a way. So I've got to follow the pictures, or the pictures have to follow me.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.
So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind. If they can't imagine a green field, a blue sky or something of the sort, then they are out of their depth.
I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.
That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Never harmed a fly. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher.
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.