I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.