Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.