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…

- Michael Winterbottom

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

- Michael Winterbottom

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

- Michael Winterbottom

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…

- Michael Winterbottom

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…

- Michael Winterbottom

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

- Michael Winterbottom

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 …

- Michael Winterbottom

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

- Michael Winterbottom

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…

- Michael Winterbottom