I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

Kindness has a power to change.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are.