Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

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.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.