Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.
Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.
To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.