The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.

I’ve always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I’m interested in politics in that I’m a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can’t get into the ins and outs of it.