I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up and skulk about in ….

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark..

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but i….

If you make a movie in the UK you've got to embrace the weather with open arms... We got some of the most amazing weather as well. It's maybe why som….

I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot..

Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it..

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being i….

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films..

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things..

I tend to shoot really quick so you don't get the problems you might get on a traditional film where you shoot one way, then another, and it's pissin….

People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their ….

I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. I….

Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in….

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There….

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not s….

I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of ….

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Mos….

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting ….

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and mon….

If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role….

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate m….