I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.