“Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.”

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you’ve accomplished that, you’ve accomplished a lot.

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn’t like the film – fair cop. Others, I think, didn’t understand it.

As I get more and more involved in the child’s world with Rocco his son I’m getting interested in making a film for children.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

I think there’s a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It’s not an intellectual process, it’s an instinctive process.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can’t think of anything I’d want to spend my money on.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I’ll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it’s me that takes the credit anyway!

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I don’t know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.

I still love her. But she’s retarded, too.

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

I’m single again and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m loving it at the moment. This is what I’ve been missing.

We’re not unique. We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.

I live on a bicycle, I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold peoples hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Being a mother is a little like ‘Groundhog’s Day.’ It’s getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and again and yet again – and it’s watching it all get undone again and again and yet again. It’s humbling, monotonous, mind-numbing, and solitary.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

You know what they say, dress your best when you go to bed because you don’t know who you’ll see in your dreams.

I grew up in a flat with my brothers and my cousins. My brothers were in the same bed.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.