You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

I've got a very wide taste in art. I like Russian icon painters. I like Salvador Dali. It's like music. Sometimes you want to hear Led Zeppelin, and sometimes you want to hear Stravinsky. It just depends.

Sometimes beauty can be a trap.

It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.