I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic, and I'm not a comic person - it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at.

I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

This is the weirdest industry. When you have a job, you can't fall into the pitfalls of thinking you're secure. If it's not a firing, it's a strike.

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.