When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic.

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say 'I did that.'

The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.

When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.