I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.