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.

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

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

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

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.