I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about w….

In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all ki….

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins..

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to mak….

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between….

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame..

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it..

Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameter….

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go….

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry f….

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about pl….

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 c….

For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists….

I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is wha….

If I'm ever working on a set and anyone talks about a master shot, I say there is no master shot. Before I even went to film school, I learned about ….

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. ….

I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that ….

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 ins….

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would….

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like tha….