Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.

I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.