I was trained as a straight dramatist..

I love all of our subpodcasts..

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here..

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film..

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Space does for comics what time does for film!.

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

I like doing film, you know, single-camera..

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just ….

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Syl….

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films..

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange..

I've never not been famous..

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful..

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s..

In fact, whenever I go and watch a film I don't like to read about them beforehand - I like to go in fresh and get inside the story without knowing w….

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me..

I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in ….