Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.