My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

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

I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

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