Isaac Julien presents Isaac Julien's Guide to Artists Filmmaking as part of the film season.

1. Best Film of 20th Century

I like so many films in the 20th century it is hard to say which one I would choose as the 'best', because each film affirms different cultural qualities. There are Master works that I really love, like Touch of Evil (1958) and Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles, but also there are films which mean a lot more to me personally like - Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep(1973) means a lot to me. For a completely different reason, Eisenstein's October (1927) is pretty important to the way I think and make film works myself.

2. Best Film of 21st Century so far...

Well that is easy, at the moment it is True Grit! by the Coen Brothers.

3. Earliest Film Memory

I think it was amazing Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973).

4. Scene that changed your life

I think that it is TV that changed my life, rather than Cinema, in particular works like The Naked Civil Servant (1975) which moved me and made me realise I was queer. But in film I think it has to be Wavelength (1967) by Michael Snow because of how it played with time.

5. Best going to the flicks experience

Seeing Paris is Burning (1990) in New York when it came out. Not for the quality of the film per se but for the enjoyment of being part of an atypically feisty audience who heckled throughout the screening.

6. Best director working today

But of course it is always Jean Luc Goddard who ceases to amaze, but Christopher Nolan is very interesting in terms of what boring Hollywood does today.

7. Best actor working today

That is easy - James Franco. Not just because of his acting, although it is very good, but because of his wider interest in cinema and artist filmmaking which makes him very unusual in Hollywood.

8. Best actress working today

Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton, Maggie Cheung and Glenn Close.

9. Most exciting new film prospect

Making my next work!

10. Most interesting new development in cinema

How CGI has eclipsed Hollywood stars at the Box office. Well, not really, actually the way that computerisation and digitisation has affected the notion of time in how films are made and viewed.

11. Will watching movies on mobile phones take off?

Mobiles are too small, but on the iPad, yes!

12. Are Hollywood's days numbered?

Absolutely not, unfortunately ... the real question should be are independent films days numbered?