Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.