My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.
I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
I guess, deep down, there's a dark side to us. I guess that's why movie fans really love the revenge drama. We like to go into dark movie theaters and fantasize.
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
Gosh, it's so fun to do a movie where there's nothing dark happening in it.
I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.