Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.

I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. And I had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that I didn't mind. I was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. And that's not a good space to be in.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.