"Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons."

"Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with."

"Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie."

"Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists."

"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."

"The films that I do tend to polarise people's views."