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.

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

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.

I love a really good storyline.

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

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

I haven't got a writer's discipline.