There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.