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They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they're so few and far between.

It's nice that we have all these different films.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.