When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

Bernie Sanders has inspired millions of people in this country.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.