Roger Michell Quotes

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.

I’ve tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I’m not saying that it’s wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it’s just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

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.