I Think I Really Produce My Best

Cinema Gives You The Opportunity To Be Both A Grandparent And A Grandchild Whereas In Life You Cannot Be Both At The Same Time.

There Are Certainties In Existence, But Love Is Something Much Harder To Define Than Light And Dark, Life And Death. I Think Saying You Are "like" Someone In Love Sounds Right.

I Had Intended To Make Another Film, Called Pocket Money, Which Was To Be About Children At A School. I Was Very Much Intrigued By The Story [of Close Up] - It Came Into My Dreams And I Was Very Much Influenced By It. So I Called My Producer And Asked That We Put Aside Pocket Money And Start Something Else, And He Agreed.

When We Start Shooting I Don't Have Rehearsals With Characters At All. So, Rather Than Pulling Them Towards Myself, I Travel Closer To Them; It's Very Much Closer To The Real Person Than Anything I Try To Create. So I Give Them Something But I Also Take From Them.

Everybody Knows That I Am Not Usually Patient Enough To Actually Sit Down And Watch One Of My Own Films From The Beginning To The End - I Never Do.