Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

There are some logistical and legal nightmares tied to that show, ... for me, the great thrill of doing that show was playing with people I've been a fan of.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.