17 Quotes by Michael Winterbottom

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

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

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 to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras.

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

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

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

The film tries to tell their story. We are trying to show what happened to them from their point of view. They are normal people simply caught up in events.

I prefer to watch people.