If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Could you double-check the envelope?

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.