There were many times during the filming of 'Touching the Void' when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film.
In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.
The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.
Everyone's got to make one submarine drama in their life.
I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
No man, no woman is without their flaws.
You can relate to someone with a flaw.
What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.
I love submarine movies.
I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.
'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart.
Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.
If you can understand, you can feel compassion.
I'm not doing any more music films!
If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.'
For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.
If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.
I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.
I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley.
Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present.
It's so nice to be totally artistically free.
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.
I went through a period of not watching fiction.
I think my brother always wanted to be a film producer.
Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.
Young people read their news online; they expect to get their news for free.
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.
When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.
