No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.