Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.