I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.