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

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even engage with you because of that. That's the greatest job one Earth.

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

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.