I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

The most extraordinary thing, you'd be given permission for, and then the weirdest, simplest things, you just wouldn't be able to obtain permissions. And it would go on and on and on forever and ever, and there was no way to know. You have to kind of approach it with an open, quite optimistic mind, no matter what's thrown at you, because it will only ever result in damaging the film if you let any kind of despondency get to you.

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

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

I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.