The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

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