I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

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