There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say, "Why can't you put sex in a….

I'm a fan of music from all over the world..

The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you can shoot anything you want. The….

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them..

You can almost take the book and use it as a script..

When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of like a prison, because by the ….

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing..

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you..

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it..

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing..

From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if t….

I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the c….

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or em….

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and s….

I still enjoy watching films more than making them..

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist..