There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

The most extraordinary thing, you'd be given permission for, and then the weirdest, simplest things, you just wouldn't be able to obtain permissions. And it would go on and on and on forever and ever, and there was no way to know. You have to kind of approach it with an open, quite optimistic mind, no matter what's thrown at you, because it will only ever result in damaging the film if you let any kind of despondency get to you.