I Learned With 'the Beach' That I'm

I Don't Want To Make Pompous, Serious Films; I Like Films That Have A Kind Of Vivacity About Them.

I Don't Want People To Sit There And Objectively Watch The Film. I Want Them To Experience It As Something That's Under Their Skin, So You Try To Make The Films Really Tactile.

There's Lots Of Things That Can Be Solved With Cash. And There's Occasional Things That Can't Be Solved With Cash, Which Become A Bureaucratic Nightmare For Some Reason, And There's No Distinction Between The Two.

Both Of My Sisters Have Been Teachers And They Used To Say You Get Asked Between 300 And 600 Questions Every Day Which You Have To Answer. That's Exactly What Directing Is. And The Vast Majority Of Those Questions Are Not Very Interesting Really, But They Need Somebody To Make A Decision - A Good One Or A Bad One - And They Follow It.

I Have A Philosophy, A Belief, Which I Can See In Many, Many Other Directors That Your Early Work Is Your Best Work, Because You Don't Know What You're Doing.