When I start a film, I can sort of shut my eyes, sit somewhere quiet and imagine the movie finished. I can imagine the camera angles, I can even imagine the type of music. Without knowing the tune, I can imagine the type of music it needs to be.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

Defeat is always momentary.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.