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

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

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

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

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

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.