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

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

I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to deal with and reach an audience by doing so.

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

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

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.