You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.