You'll See More Violence In Any Television

For Me, It's Always Difficult When A Historical Film Claims To Depict Or Represent A Reality That None Of Us Can Know, That Is Always Different. It's Always The Case. We Never Know What Happened Then.

When Making A Film, I'm Never Concerned About Whether The Theme Is New Or Whether It's Been Done Before In Cinema Or Not. I'm Led To Make Films If There's A Theme That Interests Me Or I Experience Something In My Own Life That Confronts Me With Something That I Want To Deal With.

As A Private Person, Professionally I Am Invisible.

To Be Perfectly Honest, I Think That As I'm Growing Older, I'm Just Growing More Impatient. I'll Be Very Happy If At Some Point People Say, 'michael's Grown Wiser And Softer In His Old Age.' But We'll Have To Wait And See What My Next Project Is.

Mainstream Cinema Raises Questions Only To Immediately Provide An Answer To Them, So They Can Send The Spectator Home Reassured. If We Actually Had Those Answers, Then Society Would Appear Very Different From What It Is.