I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.