I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

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

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.

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.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...