Celluloid Will Be The Next Decade's Black

Most Films That I Do, Whether Successful Or Not, Just Fade Away. They Have Their Moment In The Sun, Then They Are Gone. 'trainspotting' Did Not, And Especially With Journalists. So Whenever I Launched A New Film, I'd End Up Talking About 'trainspotting.'

I Find That People Find A Way Out Of Misery Through Humor And It's Humor That's Often Unacceptable To People Who Are Not In Quite Such A State Of Misery.

I Always Say To Anybody Who's Going Over To America For The First Time, 'whatever You Do, Go And See A Popular Mainstream Film With A Big Audience.' Because People Shout Out. You Never Get That In Britain. Everybody's So Quiet, Scared To Laugh. It's Like Being In Church.

I Don't Want People To Sit There And Objectively Watch The Film. I Want Them To Experience It As Something That's Under Their Skin, So You Try To Make The Films Really Tactile.

When You Have Children Your Own Hypocrisy Becomes More Apparent Because You're Telling Them How To Behave, And You're Not Behaving Like That Yourself. So It Obliges One To Really Go In And Try To Look At Why There Is A Huge Gulf Between How One Knows One Wants To Behave And How One Actually Does Behave.