Given The Events Of Even The 19th

I've Long Since Stopped Worrying About How I'm Portrayed In The Press Because Ultimately It's Not That Important. Everyone Who Knows Me Knows I Do What I Do With The Greatest Integrity.

When I Was Young I Used To Sit In The Cinema Thinking Wouldn't It Be Great If You Could Have A Film In Which The Characters Were Like Real People Instead Of Being Like Actors.

As A General Habit And General Tendency, I Prefer Not To Bog A Piece Down With A Great Number Of Transitory, Contemporary References, Because In The End, I'm Concerned, Not In An Abstract Way, But An Actual Way, With Creating A World Which Has A Universality To It - Even Though What Goes On Is Made Up Of Texture And Detail, Contemporary Detail.

I Feel Very Much Ideologically, Politically If You Like, And Emotionally Part Of The European Cinema.

My Work Is About Life As You And I Experience It. You're Either Lucky Or You're Not Lucky; Either Your Relationship Works Or It Doesn't.