We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

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.

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

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.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.