I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

The most extraordinary thing, you'd be given permission for, and then the weirdest, simplest things, you just wouldn't be able to obtain permissions. And it would go on and on and on forever and ever, and there was no way to know. You have to kind of approach it with an open, quite optimistic mind, no matter what's thrown at you, because it will only ever result in damaging the film if you let any kind of despondency get to you.