The violence at the end is about personal torture.

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the Midlands and outside of London.

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it.

You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one

The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

Indonesia, women are absolutely 100 percent equal to men

Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.