My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

Cinema has reached a dead end.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.