Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. Although the moment that it happens might be terribly sad and moving, five minutes later, if you're asked to remember that person, you go, "Oh right, yeah, yeah!" 'Cause you're just moving forward.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.