Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

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

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

The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

Come a crisis, we want other people.