I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.

I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.