I'm Taking A Bit Of A Wait-and-see

I Studied English Literature. I Wasn’t A Very Good Student, But One Thing I Did Get From It, While I Was Making Films At The Same Time With The College Film Society, Was That I Started Thinking About The Narrative Freedoms That Authors Had Enjoyed For Centuries And It Seemed To Me That Filmmakers Should Enjoy Those Freedoms As Well.

Sometime, When You Start Thinking Too Much What An Audience Is Going To Think, When You're Too Self-conscious About It, You Make Mistakes.

The Structural Notions To Me Always Have To Be Worked Out Very Carefully In The Script Stage. Whatever A Particular Structure Is. Whether It's Chronological Or Non-chronological. To Me That's Always About What Point Of View Are We Trying To Address In The Film?

In Hollywood There's A Great Openness, Almost A Voracious Appetite For New People. In England There's A Great Suspicion Of The New. In Cultural Terms, That Can Be A Good Thing, But When You're Trying To Break Into The Film Industry, It's Definitely A Bad Thing.

I Think There Are Advantages To Different Scales Of Filmmaking. You Wouldn't Want To Do Just One Thing.