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My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.
One of my foolish qualities is to jump boldly, and then think about it later.
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
People who are deaf or hard of hearing need all the support we can give them.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.
I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.
The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them.
An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.
Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.
There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
It's amazing how little you can see people but still stay in regular contact.
Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.
Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.
Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
The thing about audiences is that we can't generalise them. It's very unfair.
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film.
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.
I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
If I am aware of my own limitations, then I can work towards overcoming them.
I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.
I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.
The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.
Coming from a very small country, it's always nice to see our own doing well.
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.