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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

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Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

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I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

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My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

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I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

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My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

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But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?

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I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: February 20th, 1943

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