The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.