I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.