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I've not used a score in any of my films so far.
I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.
I don't want to think too much about me.
For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
I try and be truthful.
When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.
I normally go with the flow.
I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
Sleep your way to the top.
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.
With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.
I just like doing things from my own head.
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
I was 18 when I got my first TV job.
I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.