I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.