And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.