Films Are Made All Over The World

Very Occasionally I Hire An Actor And Get It Wrong. The Actor Just Doesn't Trust The Process Or Me As Fully As I Thought They Would. In This Case, You Can Be Quite Sure That If An Actor Is Untrusting, It's Got Nothing To Do With Me Or The Process.

I Think The Camera Has Got To Be Motivated. You Can't Have Things Arrived At Gratuitously. Everything Has To Have An Organic Function, But The More Comfortable I've Become And The More Imaginative And Sophisticated And The More Exploratory I've Become At The Medium, The More I've Subtly Deviated Away From That In Various Ways.

I Mean, Artistic Processes Are All About Making Choices All The Time, And The Very Act Of Making A Choice Is The Distilling Down And The Getting To The Core Of What It Is That You Care About And What You Want To Say, Really.

Because Of The Way That I Work With The Actors And Because A Scene Is Not In This Rigid And Literal Interpretation Of Something Written, I Can Constantly Change Stuff, Which Means I Can Get A Scene Absolutely Perfect, And Then When We Go To Shoot It, The Requirements Of The Shot Mean It Would Be Useful To Extend The Dialogue Or Take A Line Out Or Swap Things Around. So The Camera Doesn't Serve The Action. The Action Serves The Camera. That's Important. So It Becomes More And More Organic And Integrated.

There Is A Great Tradition Of Independent Filmmaking In The U.s. That I Absolutely Respect. There's Some Wonderful Stuff That Comes Out In This Country Against All The Odds.