Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.