I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.
It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
Creating anything is hard.
It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.
I am very well known in the world of darts and in my home town of Southam but unfortunately women's darts does not have the high profile of the men's game and so is not featured on TV very much. I think you need to be seen on world wide TV to become really famous.
I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.