The Main Problem Is That The Hollywood

I Do Not Make Films Which Are Prescriptive, And I Do Not Make Films That Are Conclusive. You Do Not Walk Out Of My Films With A Clear Feeling About What Is Right And Wrong. They're Ambivalent. You Walk Away With Work To Do. My Films Are A Sort Of Investigation. They Ask Questions . . .. Sometimes I Hear That Some [hollywood] Studio Is Interested In Me. Then They Discover That This Is The Guy Who Works With No Script, That There Is No Casting Discussion, No Interference, That I Have The Final Cut, And That Does It.

Because Of The Way That I Work With The Actors And Because A Scene Is Not In This Rigid And Literal Interpretation Of Something Written, I Can Constantly Change Stuff, Which Means I Can Get A Scene Absolutely Perfect, And Then When We Go To Shoot It, The Requirements Of The Shot Mean It Would Be Useful To Extend The Dialogue Or Take A Line Out Or Swap Things Around. So The Camera Doesn't Serve The Action. The Action Serves The Camera. That's Important. So It Becomes More And More Organic And Integrated.

If A Film Or Any Piece Of Work Doesn't Entertain, It Fails - And That Is Using The Word Entertain Literally, Meaning It Holds You There And You Become Absorbed By It So That You Don't Walk Away And Get Bored And So On.

I Did Sit In Cinemas As A Kid Looking At English And American Movies Thinking, "wouldn't It Be Great If The Characters Were Like Real People?" And The Worst Thing Is Films Are Constantly Advertising Themselves, Drawing Attention To Their Style Of Things. But Actually I Make Films That I Think Are Extremely Sophisticated And Cinematic. But You Don't Want The Audience Thinking About The Bloody Film. You Want Them To Think About What's Going On, And Believe In It. Be Flies On The Wall, You Know?

Independent Filmmaking Has Always Been There And It's Not To Be Forgotten.