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.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

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.

Sometimes beauty can be a trap.

I don't want people to pigeonhole me.