Michael Winterbottom

From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even…

— Michael Winterbottom

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

— Michael Winterbottom

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between…

— Michael Winterbottom

I prefer to watch people.

— Michael Winterbottom

When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become…

— Michael Winterbottom

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

— Michael Winterbottom

There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs,…

— Michael Winterbottom

The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you…

— Michael Winterbottom

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

— Michael Winterbottom

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to…

— Michael Winterbottom

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and…

— Michael Winterbottom

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

— Michael Winterbottom

I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations…

— Michael Winterbottom

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

— Michael Winterbottom

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

— Michael Winterbottom

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

— Michael Winterbottom

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

— Michael Winterbottom

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

— Michael Winterbottom