You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.