You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.