I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.
Film is a battleground.
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.
As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.
I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.
