My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.

Distance yourself from people who:1. Disrespect you2. Mistreat others3. Are abusive4. Lie to you5. Are negative6. Have no goals7. Use you8. Put you down

To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.