That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
“Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.”
“I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.”