Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

You’re directing a movie, but you are at the head of a ship of people, a whole fleet of people. And being able to manage that - being able to handle yourself as a director being a leader - that’s massively important.

Some directors hand over portions of their movie to their head of department to the point where it's like, "I'm not going to talk to you about the costumes, but I'm going to let you talk to the expert." Rather than, "You want to talk stitching, let's talk stitching. You want to talk grade of leather? Let's."

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.