We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.

A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.