I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.