Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.
Confidence is essential, but ego is not.
The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.
I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.