Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.