As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

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

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

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 think estates are grim places.