My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter #1 and #2, which are like filmed books on tape. They're so petrified of turning off the readers that they make no concessions to the fact that they're trying to make a piece of cinema.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.