You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.