The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

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

In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.

I have to get out of bed every day to make something happen.