Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?