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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."

"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."

"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."

"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."

"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."

"I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat."

"I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh."

"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game."

"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
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