The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

It's really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I've made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I've grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.