It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.