I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

I don't even like football.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.