I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

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

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

The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

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