Successful films are very dangerous things.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.