I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

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

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.