You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.