It's An Unhealthy Habit To Say That

But Actually I Make Films That I Think Are Extremely Sophisticated And Cinematic.

The Way An Actor Is Trained Doesn't Ultimately Have Much Bearing On My Work. I'm Interested In The Actor As Artist.

I Did Sit In Cinemas As A Kid Looking At English And American Movies Thinking, "wouldn't It Be Great If The Characters Were Like Real People?" And The Worst Thing Is Films Are Constantly Advertising Themselves, Drawing Attention To Their Style Of Things. But Actually I Make Films That I Think Are Extremely Sophisticated And Cinematic. But You Don't Want The Audience Thinking About The Bloody Film. You Want Them To Think About What's Going On, And Believe In It. Be Flies On The Wall, You Know?

I Hate Period Films - And There Are Plenty Of Them - Where They Say, "let's Not Do Contemporary Language Because The Audience Won't Understand It;" "let's Not Make The Girls Wear Corsets, Because It's Not Sexy" And All That Sort Of Thing. Gradually It Disintegrates Into A No Man's Land: You Don't Really Believe It's A Period Scene And It Doesn't Feel Like It's Now Because It's Not Now. You Don't Feel It's Quite Real And You Don't Believe In It.

Very Occasionally I Hire An Actor And Get It Wrong. The Actor Just Doesn't Trust The Process Or Me As Fully As I Thought They Would. In This Case, You Can Be Quite Sure That If An Actor Is Untrusting, It's Got Nothing To Do With Me Or The Process.