You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.

President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.