All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.

My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.

You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

Conse­quently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec in the dock. Maurice may get off.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.

We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.