'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”

When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm actually like, "I kind of don't want to direct it." I don't know why, I still love it enough for it to be made and to support it, but I don't want to direct it. I just give it to other directors and they do a good job!

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?