The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

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

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

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.

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