Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways. 
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England. 
We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back. 
I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. 
I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character. 
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion. 
We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances. 
We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight. 
New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. 
What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters. 
At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines. 
Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed. 
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. 
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. 
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent. 
I have a short attention span. 
The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake. 
I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently. 
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit. 
An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?' 
I make a movie because it's something that inspires me. 
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. 
I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done. 
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. 