Ben Wheatley

If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that,…

— Ben Wheatley

I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm,…

— Ben Wheatley

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move,…

— Ben Wheatley

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

— Ben Wheatley

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about…

— Ben Wheatley

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

— Ben Wheatley

'Doctor Who' is pretty dark, I think. Generally it's dark; it's always been dark.

— Ben Wheatley

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

— Ben Wheatley

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you…

— Ben Wheatley

I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about…

— Ben Wheatley

I tend to shoot really quick so you don't get the problems you might get on a traditional film where you shoot…

— Ben Wheatley

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into…

— Ben Wheatley

I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up…

— Ben Wheatley

People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making…

— Ben Wheatley

You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered…

— Ben Wheatley

The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see…

— Ben Wheatley

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

— Ben Wheatley

If you make a movie in the UK you've got to embrace the weather with open arms... We got some of the…

— Ben Wheatley

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my…

— Ben Wheatley

I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

— Ben Wheatley

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just…

— Ben Wheatley

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the…

— Ben Wheatley

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going…

— Ben Wheatley

Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to…

— Ben Wheatley

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But…

— Ben Wheatley