Henry James Sumner Maine

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.