I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.