Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally Ill write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But that being said, the old way of graining in the camera, now you can make changes like a painter. It's dangerous because you can ruin the film, you can over-fiddle. We've all seen films and gone 'what the hell is that?'

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.