Nothing is black and white, everything is fluid.

What is cinema? A camera taking pictures?

Where is cinema at the moment?

Film can examine/reveal humanity.

Film does things real life cannot.

It can be a great form of art.

Does it take great filmmakers to make great films?

Are they like the great classical composers; in the past and not very frequently seen today?

I am fuelled by great filmmakers. I may not love all of their films, but I love their methodology, risk-taking, humanity, poetry, intelligence, their flaws.

Fellini, Bunuel, Antonioni, Godard, Renoir, Bresson, Murnau, Bergman, Cox, Campion, Tarkovsky, Von Trier, Wong Kar-wai etc. etc.

There is too much modern "product".

I hate all the "rules", man-made structures in making films and getting them seen.

Filmmakers shouldn't be pigeon-holed.

A great film can be two minutes. An audience of one is a thrill.

If we are not risking, experimenting, trying to rise above the mediocre, why bother?

I find the process of getting the ideas, capturing/discovering the images, and crafting the story in editing intensely creative and enjoyable.

The End!