Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottomis an English filmmaker. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films — Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People — have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Winterbottom often works with the same actors; many faces can be seen in several of his films, including Shirley Henderson, Paul Popplewell, John Simm, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Raymond Waring and Kieran O'Brien...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 March 1961
The starting point was to tell (about) these three people, not to tell the general political situation. All the images you see - it's hard to know whether it's deliberate or not, they sort of dehumanize the people there, you don't have any sense of what they're like.
We are trying to show what happened to them from their point of view. In the end we are just trying to tell the story as it is. To tell the story of these three people, not to tell the general story.
When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.
I'm a fan of music from all over the world.
I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.
A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.