I’ve learnt from the best: the great filmmakers of Iran, India, Egypt, China, America, Europe and Brazil; Hollywood’s golden age movie stars; writers, DPs, historians. Here are some of them.

Profound thanks to my regular collaborators: producers, composers, sound designers, graphic designers, animators, etc. Their names are on the films, and should be up in lights. 

A special mention to Timo Langer who has edited (and improved) most of what I’ve done, and producer John Archer who trusted me from the start and keeps coming up with big ideas.

I’m a constant apprentice. 

Edgar Wright
Jeremy Thomas
Abbas Kiarostami
Alba Rohrwacher
Buck Henry
Cari Beachamp
Cari Beauchamp
Charles Burnett
Chris Doyle
Cinema China in Scotland with Maggie Cheung
Claudia Cardinale
David Lynch
Dennis Hopper
Donald Surtherland
Gus Van sant
Helena Solberg
Imamura Shohei
Jane Fonda  recording her voice over for Women Make Film
Maggie Cheung
Making Cinema Iran with Jafar Panahi
Norman Lloyd
Robert Towne
Scottish Cinema of Dreams in China with Tilda Swinton
Sean Connery
Sharmila Tagore
Tilda Swinton
Tsai Ming Liang
Youssif Chahine