As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.