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.
We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can’t understand why they don’t throw themselves off the balconies.
I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn’t have got Osama bin Laden – it took us years, but it happened.
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy – that is a miracle in itself.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
The film follows very much in the tradition of social realism, because I wanted to see a subject like this tackled with honesty.
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.
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.
