Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

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.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.