You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"

Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.