I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

Don't make jokes about food.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.