Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker

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

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

Because of the way that I work with the actors and because a scene is not in this rigid and literal interpretation of something written, I can constantly change stuff, which means I can get a scene absolutely perfect, and then when we go to shoot it, the requirements of the shot mean it would be useful to extend the dialogue or take a line out or swap things around. So the camera doesn't serve the action. The action serves the camera. That's important. So it becomes more and more organic and integrated.