Michael Patrick Jann

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.