Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.