If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I've got a serious-looking head.

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I like to learn about things.