I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.