Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.

You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.