I'm Not From Around These Parts. I'm

I See Myself Much More As A Writer/director Or At Least An Aspiring Writer/director - Not Necessarily In Film.

The Terrible Thing In England Is If You Interview A Thousand People, Five Hundred Of Them Will Talk Like They're Going Into A Guy Ritchie Movie And The Other Five Hundred Will Be Mr. Darcy. So We Had To Find Cool, Working Class Kids With No Profile Who Could Be John Travolta And James Dean And People Like That.

For Every Wacky Postcard, There's A Million People Waiting To Buy It, And For Every $10 Million Of Those Things, There's One Rembrandt. Purposely, I Think I Want To Aim At Doing Something That A Lot Of People Won't Like. I'm Just Worried That It Looks Like I've Compared My Work With Rembrandt. "gervais Says He's Better Than Rembrandt!".

I've Been Nominated Four Times, Never Won. And The Whole World Is Going, `why Hasn't Winslet Won One?' That's Why I'm Doing It. "schindler's Bloody List," "the Pianist," Oscars Coming Out Of Their Ass.

My Philosophy? Have A Laugh For As Long As You Can And Don't Get Run Over. Or Stabbed.