I always wanted to make movies.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.