The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

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 good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

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'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.