Roger Michell

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Well, I'm English.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I love Hindi films.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.