You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry and like a network of computers it all contributes in some way to when it's individually needed.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

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

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