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

There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say, "Why can't you put sex in a film?"

I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras.

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

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

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

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