I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

Films are just consumables.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

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

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

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