I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.