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Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.