You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

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

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

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.