I haven't got a writer's discipline.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.