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

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

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

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

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.