I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

You have to go where the good writing is.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.