I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals -… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them. — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say,… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you can shoot… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist. — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image