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

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.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.