I'm A Big Sports Fan. Football. Cricket.

I Always Say To Anybody Who's Going Over To America For The First Time, 'whatever You Do, Go And See A Popular Mainstream Film With A Big Audience.' Because People Shout Out. You Never Get That In Britain. Everybody's So Quiet, Scared To Laugh. It's Like Being In Church.

If You Approach India In The Right Way, You Have So Much To Learn There About People, And There's So Many People. It's Such An Extraordinary Setup, And It's So Bewildering How It Manages To Get Through Somehow, You Can Only Wonder At It.

I Don't Want People To Sit There And Objectively Watch The Film. I Want Them To Experience It As Something That's Under Their Skin, So You Try To Make The Films Really Tactile.

Even Though One Of Them Is About An Edinburgh Junkie And Ones A Little Boy Of Eight In Manchester, You Want Them To Always Portray Their World In Such A Vivid Way That The Audience Can Disappear Inside The Story.

I've Just Been To The Taj Mahal Which I'd Never Been To And I'm Not A Very Romantic Kind Of Guy But It Is The Most Romantic Thing I've Ever Seen.