There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.

London is a very energising place to be.