Come a crisis, we want other people.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

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.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.