Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.
I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. . . . Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.