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So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.

You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.

I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

I get called to do a lot of labors of love... independent films on very small budgets. If I have the time and if the project speaks to me, it's better than sitting around, right?