I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
“I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.”
“I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.”