I've got a serious-looking head.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

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.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

I've been very lucky.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.