I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum...whereas men just drum.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.