I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.