Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like real people?" And the worst thing is films are constantly advertising themselves, drawing attention to their style of things. But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. But you don't want the audience thinking about the bloody film. You want them to think about what's going on, and believe in it. Be flies on the wall, you know?

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.