I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

- Roger Michell

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

- Roger Michell

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of t…

- Roger Michell

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

- Roger Michell

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

- Roger Michell