I'm The Git In The Family.

No Matter Who The Character Is And How Big Their Role, That Each Person In The Story Is A Human Being And Deserves Respect. Even If They're In The Story For Ten Seconds, I Didn't Want You To Just See Them As This Entity Passing Through That's Serving All Of The Other People.

Kids Before They're 7 Or 8 Are Like Little Manic Obsessives. They Become Completely Hooked On Things And They're Slightly Crazy.

Something I Don't Like Seeing In Other People Is Naked Ambition, When Somebody Is Really Pushing Hard To Get To Where They Want To Be. That's The Way I Look At That Word - Like You Must Be Stepping On Someone To Get There. And I've Never Been Comfortable With That.

I've Done A Number Of Things Based On Real People Or True Stories Or Based On Books, And I'm A Great Believer That You Have To Be True To The Script.

A Room Full Of Great Sportsmen Is So Much Better Than A Room Full Of Actors.