It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, “If I were gay, you’d be the one.” I said, “I’m there!”

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

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.