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

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

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

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

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

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.