When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

I don't read reviews.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

I don't want to think too much about me.