It is new to me Roxy! it seems to echo some of that sublime written interview that Lady Trueheart posted, but much of this is new, thank you for posting!

Sir Nicolas is being so open in these interviews, how honest and humbling.  it has been done, Look at Prince! he gave up press and let the work speak for itself. irrespective of that, the work DOES and always has spoken for itself, because the experience of film is a very intimate one, and cannot be had vicariously, whatever anyone else may or may not share or say about it. ..and for me as long as it is not to the depth of literary criticism where everything is literally pulled apart and analysed (and ruined my abiity to enjoy literature) having a certain amount of press about something is stimulating to the imagination, a delicious precursor that ramps up the energy inside, like a filmic foreplay, lol!