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.

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

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

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

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

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

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.