Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

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

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.