I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.