The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

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.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.