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

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

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

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

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

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