If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

War makes early risers of us all.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.