Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.