The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

My kids are too old to remember this now but, when they were much younger, I swore to them if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, and thats what that was.

To force yourself out of the comfort zone, the main ingredient is trying to work in a world where you haven't been before, that you don't know the rules of. And that involves a lot of research, so you begin to see where the other people have been, but you are starting from as vulnerable and as low a point as possible.

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