Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.

But the web is to some degree a broth of psychopaths seeing what they can get away with in circumstances of anonymity. Look, we live in a world where one is unsafe in various ways because of the Internet. Anything can be said. Someone can look at your house from space.