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• I want my films to be life-affirming, even a film like Trainspotting (1996), which is very dark in many ways. I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something’s been confirmed for them about life.
• I think I’m better at making films on my home turf, really. You learn from experience and I’ve learnt that through The Beach (2000). I love big movies, like Gladiator (2000), but I’m better at smaller films.
• That’s what’s wonderful about actors sometimes, is that’s who we watch on the screen… Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they’re all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. They make much better fodder for this kind of thing [interviews] than a director.