“But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.”

And when it’s sold to 50 countries or whatever, for me it’s a great deal. I make movies for an audience so if that audience grows, I feel really honoured and thankful for it.

I would love to work in international movies just because the talent all around the world is great.

We always get rejections, whether it’s in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in.

Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?” Some days, the answer is ‘yes’ but sometimes it’s not.

There’s a lot of good talent and the audience base is bigger.

Headhunters is a popcorn flick – you can laugh and shout and do whatever you want having great fun.

But at the bottom of it all there’s this theme of being honest to the people you love. I want to be that. And if Headhunters is one of the movies that help me realise that, then that’s perfect.

It’s basically how I choose movie roles. Would I like to see this movie? Is this movie important? Why would I do this? And Headhunters is a movie that I would like to see in the cinema.

Everyone of us wakes up in the morning, goes to the bathroom, looks in the mirror and asks: “Who am I? Who am I today?

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.

Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.

Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren’t gonna turn around.