When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

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.

I like fixing things.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.