The Bfi Exists To Celebrate All Poets

I Am A Teller Of Stories. A Weaver Of Dreams. I Can Dance, Sing, And In The Right Weather I Can Stand On My Head. I Know 7 Words Of Latin, I Have A Little Magic... And A Trick Or Two. I Know The Proper Way To Meet A Dragon, I Can Fight Dirty But Not Fair. I Once Swallowed Thirty Oysters In A Minute. I Am Not Domestic, I Am A Luxury And, In That Sense, Necessary.

Once You Start To Realize That A Film Is The Sum Of Its Editing, Then Editing Is The Thing You're Always Looking At.

There's A Great Tradition At The Bfi Of Giving Fellowships And I Thought One Of The Great Jobs That I'd Have At The Bfi Would Be To Give Them Out On A Regular Basis.

No Studio In Hollywood Wanted 'cold Mountain.' None. No One Wanted 'ripley,' No One Wanted 'the English Patient.' That Tells You There Isn't Really An Appetite For Ambitious Movie-making Out There.

When I Became The Chair Of The British Film Institute, I Didn't Understand How Much Of My Time Would Be Taken Up With Trying To Make A Case For The British Film Institute: What It's For, Why It Exists, Why It Needs Its Money.