If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

I have never felt bereft of anything.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.