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.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

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.

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

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