I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in [the UK]. The porch play, not to mention that thing of, Oops, I wasn't loved enough by my father, somehow didn't have the relevance in this country.