I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.