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I don't read reviews.
I try and be truthful.
Sleep your way to the top.
I've always loved America.
I normally go with the flow.
I love insects. They are amazing.
I'm much happier behind the camera.
I don't think estates are grim places.
I don't want to think too much about me.
I think the reality is important anyway.
I just like doing things from my own head.
I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.
I never write with an actor in mind - never.
I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.
We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.
I've not used a score in any of my films so far.
I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.
When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.
Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.
For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.
I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.