 How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. |
| Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family. |
| I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know? |
| If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. |
| My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music. |
| But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains. |
| What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. |
| People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors. |
| People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk. |
| Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. |
| I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills. |
| So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling. |
| It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle. |
| I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy - that is a miracle in itself. |
| Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. Topics: Show Business |
| I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him. |
| Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. |
| Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. |
| Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money. |
| I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. |
