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

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.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

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

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

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.