There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.
Humour and high seriousness. . . Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.