“A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.”
Scene by Scene interview BBC 2 (1999) http://web.archive.org/20040210020322/members.fortunecity.com/vanessa77/index2005.html
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