I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But that being said, the old way of graining in the camera, now you can make changes like a painter. It's dangerous because you can ruin the film, you can over-fiddle. We've all seen films and gone 'what the hell is that?'

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.