You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great..

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors..

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage..

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film..

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously..

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images..

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished ….

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comforta….

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stu….

The more times people laugh, the better the film is..

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made..

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones..

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to….

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even g….

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people..

There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films..

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener..

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that ha….

I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid..

My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something I wanted to do. I rea….

The power of good film is being there in the moment..