All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.

I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.