I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

I've got a serious-looking head.