When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

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

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.