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

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

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

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

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

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

I think women assess time passage much better than men - because of their biological clocks - and they are much more realistic about measuring out time, whereas men tend to hang onto things. Women acknowledge the biology of their time, and dance through the beat of that drum...whereas men just drum.