It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.