“Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.”

“Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.”

“Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.”

“I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.”

“The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.”

“If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.”

“I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.”

“It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.”

“My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.”