We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

I trained in the theatre.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.