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We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.


Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.


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.


I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.


Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.


Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.


Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.


The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.


The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.


We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.


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.


We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.


What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.


Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.


I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.


I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing.


I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.


If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.


It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.


I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.