I Want People To Leave The Cinema

We're Trying To Learn From [olympic] Beijing, Which Could Be Very Intimidating. We've Learned To Expect It's Power, It Majesty And That It Completes A Cycle Of Certain Types Of Shows... I Don't Think Any Nation Could Do Anything On That Scale. We Haven't Got That Money, And I Don't Think Anybody Would Have The Appetite For That Kind Of Expenditure And That Kind Of Control, So We're Going To Try And Do Something A Bit More Intimate And Try And Start Again... Start A New Cycle For These Kind Of Ceremonies.

The Problem With Being British... I Don't Know If It's Me Being British Or Being Raised A Strict Catholic, But You Never Really Enjoy Success.

I've Sort Of Escaped My Background, As People Often Do, Through Art And Culture.

Your First Film Is Always Your Best Film, In A Way. There's Something About Your First Film That You Never Ever Get Back To, But You Should Always Try. It's That Slight Sense Of Not Knowing What You're Doing, Because The Technical Skills You Learn - Especially If You Have A Film That Works, That Has Some Kind Of Success - Are Beguiling. The Temptation Is To Use Them Again, And They're Not Necessarily Good Storytelling Techniques.

Events In The Present Can Trigger Quite A Young Part Of Ourselves. If We Don't Take Responsibility And Start Looking After That Young Part Of Ourselves, We Can Start Asking Partners To Look After That Part Of Ourselves Or We Wound Ourselves.