People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.