It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.