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Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
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Making movies is like herding cats.
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I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
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When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.
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The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.
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'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.