English culture is highly literary-based.
Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.