I realised very early on that what you're creating inside the computer is a three-dimensional environment.
Then I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing.
I had a real tendency to cling to things, various types of safety blankets, but I realised very quickly what I did and didn't need.
But I realised very quickly that I had to mask that as a murder mystery to fool people into going to the cinema to see it.
"I got into coaching very early because I realised very young that I love playing, but football is not just about that, he says.
I realised very early on that I could do more with it, that I could make it a business and a career.
"I realised very quickly that I wasn't going to be a social worker, a therapist or a psychologist," he says, yet his current work could be interpreted as an artistic synthesis of all the above.
"When I started, the Beatles were being condemned by many of my fellow artists, but I realised very early on that you must rely on the new moods in society.
"I realised very quickly that everything I had read about Iraq, by focusing only on Saddam [Hussein], had not illuminated the real situation".The exhibition, called "Eye Level in Iraq", includes brief glimpses of humour, such as a mural dedicated to Arnold Schwarzenegger in Baghdad, and some calm signs of daily life, like a picture of men playing dominos in a park at sunset.
I was asked by Granta magazine in 2010 to contribute an essay about feminism, which they said they wanted to be quite personal; and having thought at first that that wasn't the proper way to discuss feminism, I realised very quickly that for me now, perhaps it was the only way.
