I'd love to make a thriller.
I am not famous at all.
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.
My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'
It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.
Snobbery just inhibits you.
I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.
