The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.