America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live..

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever..

Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one..

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love..

I think the reality is important anyway..

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really..

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way….

I don't feel very revengeful in life at all..

Sleep your way to the top..

I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online..

I've always loved America..

I deliberately never read about films before I see them..

I love insects. They are amazing..

I don't think estates are grim places..

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them..

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to….

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world..

Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I n….

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it..