When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.

The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you can shoot anything you want. There's no pressure to shoot anything. Whatever interests you that day is what you're shooting. That's a big liberation that makes it more enjoyable and more relaxed. I think if you have that kind of framework it can make it a much more satisfying thing to work on and to watch as well.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.