Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.