There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.