The Reason My Films Work Is Because

I Have To Get Out Of Bed Every Day To Make Something Happen.

The Problem With The British Film Industry Is The Nervousness And Insecurity About - And Genuflection Toward - Los Angeles.

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.

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.

If A Film Or Any Piece Of Work Doesn't Entertain, It Fails - And That Is Using The Word Entertain Literally, Meaning It Holds You There And You Become Absorbed By It So That You Don't Walk Away And Get Bored And So On.