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I Do Not Make Films Which Are Prescriptive, And I Do Not Make Films That Are Conclusive. You Do Not Walk Out Of My Films With A Clear Feeling About What Is Right And Wrong. They're Ambivalent. You Walk Away With Work To Do. My Films Are A Sort Of Investigation. They Ask Questions . . .. Sometimes I Hear That Some [hollywood] Studio Is Interested In Me. Then They Discover That This Is The Guy Who Works With No Script, That There Is No Casting Discussion, No Interference, That I Have The Final Cut, And That Does It.

Because Of The Way That I Work With The Actors And Because A Scene Is Not In This Rigid And Literal Interpretation Of Something Written, I Can Constantly Change Stuff, Which Means I Can Get A Scene Absolutely Perfect, And Then When We Go To Shoot It, The Requirements Of The Shot Mean It Would Be Useful To Extend The Dialogue Or Take A Line Out Or Swap Things Around. So The Camera Doesn't Serve The Action. The Action Serves The Camera. That's Important. So It Becomes More And More Organic And Integrated.

I Think It’s Important That Nobody Forgets That Although Hollywood Commercially Dominates The World Cinema, In Fact What Comes Out Of The Filmmaking Here Is Only A Tiny Slice Out Of The Massive Amount Of Operation That Goes On Around The World.

I Hope I Make Films Where You Walk Away . . . With Work To Do, Arguments To Have, Things To Worry About, Things To Care About. In That Sense, I Would Regard What I Do As Political.

I Make Films Because I Am Endlessly Fascinated By People. I'm Fascinated Immediately To Know About The Lives That Are Going On Around Me. That Is What Drives Me. And That Is Because Everybody Matters, Everybody Is There To Be Cared About, Everybody Is Interesting And Everybody Is The Potential Central Character In A Story. Judging People Is Not Acceptable.