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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.