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For Me The Journey Of Making A Film Is A Journey Of Discovery As To What That Film Is. I Mean What I Do Is What Other Artists Do, Painters, Novelists, People That Make Music, Poets, Sculptors, You Name It. It's About Starting Out And Working With The Material And Discovering Through Making, Working With The Material The Artifact.

Films Are Made All Over The World All The Time And Only A Thin Slice Of That Product Is Hollywood.

I Grew Up Looking At... Going To The Movies A Lot, As Much As They'd Let You. I Grew Up In Manchester In The North Of England In The '40s And '50s. I Saw A Lot Of Movies. They Were All Hollywood And British Movies. I Didn't See A Film That Wasn't In English Until I Was 17 When I Went To London To Be A Student.

He's [constable] A Great Painter As Far As It Goes, But I Don't Think He's Remotely Interesting. Not Really. It's Very Pretty And It's Very Thorough, But It's Not Evocative, It's Not Dramatic, It Doesn't Do What Beethoven Does - It Doesn't Shake You Down To The Roots Of Your Soul, Which Turner Does. Constable Is Just Very Nice, Basically. And Moving On To Personality, Constable Was A Very Dull Character.

People Have Been Very Resistant To Giving Me More Than The Standard Amount Of Money. So I Keep Making Films On A Similar Scale. Which Is Fine, But Also Frustrating.