If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.

I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a child figures out a way, some way, to have one - whether through adoption, fostering, surrogacy, fertility, accident, or persistence.

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.