I LOVE silent cinema but don't hold it SACRED. LIKE any branch of FILM there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

The silent movie is an emotional CINEMA: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a TEXT BRINGS you BACK to a BASIC way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.

The truth is often terrifying, which I THINK is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the SECOND and third films, they explore the CONSEQUENCES of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a BEAUTIFUL, beautiful story.

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an ISLAND where I could see LIFE and death from ANOTHER perspective. EVERY YOUNG person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that CONTAINS most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you COULD WANT, in terms of bookshops, THEATRE, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I WOULD go insane.

Hong Kong CINEMA is SOMETHING you can't DUPLICATE ANYWAY.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It BREAKS the MONOTONY of an afternoon or EVENING; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, HOWEVER pleasant.

For me, there was no GREAT myth around the MOVIES when I was a YOUNG child. My father was very simple about the whole THING. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and MUSIC were art.

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the WEST End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our BANDS playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an AMAZING singer or musician.