Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.