I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

I think every director has a different methodology.

I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.