When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school and you do something and you get praised for it, you think, "Oh, right, well I'll do that." From then on, I always thought I'd be a writer. I thought novels at first, and then I sort of naturally drifted into TV.

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.

I am someone who thinks that if you've got an actor like that who wants to perform your work, then you should do it, and hopefully Tom [Hardey] likes to do the work that I do, so long may it continue.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.