Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

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 turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

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

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.