At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.