I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop it, and start it again. There is no other art form that does that type of manipulation in that way.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

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