I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way….

I don't think estates are grim places..

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live..

Sleep your way to the top..

I think the reality is important anyway..

Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I n….

I just like doing things from my own head..

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them..

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people….

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films..

A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it..

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know..

I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression ….

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying..

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me..

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are..

I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about film….

I don't read reviews..

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it..

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films..

I don't want to think too much about me..