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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

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I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: August 1st, 1965

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