It's OK to have beliefs, just don't believe in them.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.

My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI 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 like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.