I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.