Come A Crisis, We Want Other People.

What You Do Is Take The Power [popularity] Gives You - Which Is Very Temporary And Minor But Significant - And Use It. The Danger Is That You Use It On A Vanity Project That No One Wants To Watch.

If You Love A Book You Tend Not To Follow Its Surface Value, You Follow The Other Things In It.

I Don't Want To Make Pompous, Serious Films; I Like Films That Have A Kind Of Vivacity About Them.

I Always Say To Anybody Who's Going Over To America For The First Time, 'whatever You Do, Go And See A Popular Mainstream Film With A Big Audience.' Because People Shout Out. You Never Get That In Britain. Everybody's So Quiet, Scared To Laugh. It's Like Being In Church.

We Want To See Drama Told In A Cathartic Way, With Power, With Emotion Where You Empathize And Then You're Frightened. All Those Feelings Charge Up In You And You Feel For The Story.