On my way to Bafta to give a masterclass. I'll be talking about the photography and the approach in my movie World Trade Center. It's about the conversation between light and dark. The film is a poem to the ordinary things of life.

A phrase I use far too often. . .

"Possibly." It conditions anything you say even if you believe it. It becomes an anomaly.

I wish people would take more notice of. . .

My movie The Doors. It's a very sensuous film.

The most surprising thing that happened to me was. . .

Sometimes boredom is the most surprising. I am just not used to it. When I was younger, I knew it very well.

A common misperception of me is. . .

That I have a violent mind is just one of them.

I am not a politician but. . .

If I was, the first thing I'd do is try to tell the truth. The second thing I'd do is to raise an organisation around the truth.

I'm good at. . .

Certainly caring in bed. I guess I can be a good conservationist at times.

I'm very bad at. . .

Carpentry or gardening or anything that requires the precision of my hands.

In moments of weakness. . .

I feel worthless. My brain shrinks to a pea and I flush.

You know me as a director but in a truer life I'd have been a. . .

Shipowner. I love the concept of moving things across oceans.

In a nutshell, my philosophy is this. . .

I would agree with Socrates: Know thyself.