If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

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.

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