He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.

If you look at most youngsters, they have worked well under Van Gaal. I had never heard of Thomas Muller at Bayern Munich before Van Gaal managed him, and he's now one of the best players in the world.

Fashion is important, man.

I coached a team in Brixton - Brixton United - for a while. We won two cups. They are a good team, but I only coached. No playing.

I've never had a big dream to be a manager, but I'm a curious guy, and I want to see if I like it.

I don't want to be anyone's mimic.

You need to beat a defender when you have the ball. You need to be able to successfully pass to a team-mate, and there are other attributes needed to be the complete player.

Anything is possible, and if an opportunity turned up, and it was under the right circumstances, I would love to come back to England in a coaching capacity.

I am a Spurs fan as well, don't forget.

I was very fortunate to have a career like this. I wanted to put a lot back for the community.

Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It's the beginning of a lot of social gathering.

Ancelotti has managed a lot of big clubs, and I think he would do well at Madrid because Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, and Paris Saint-Germain are big clubs.

People know who Carlo Ancelotti is. He's a man with a lot of experience.

You can do tactical games with a kid, and they don't even know it's tactical.

Loyalty? There's no loyalty in football.

I have found back at Spurs the pleasure of football.

Ronaldo is the best of the best, I mean not only as a football player but also as a human being. You can see how he developed and how devoted he is to really staying on top every year to excel. I think that is something unbelievable, and I said it before and will say it again: he is an athlete, and an athlete is a positive thing.

When you look at youth, they want to aspire to somebody. You can see that with him you have to work hard, and that's what you bring if you have someone like Ronaldo who embodies hard work and determination.

If you are hoping for a Champions' League final or winning a title, it's the same. You are working for a result.

Everyone wants to play in the Champions' League because that's where it is all happening. That's where you get the A-status for players. It's very important for young players.

You don't want to play one year in the Champions' League and go out. You don't then establish yourself as a big club.

It's obviously important for the English national team if you have a lot of players playing big matches. You are more mature and know how to cope.

Football is more verbal in Holland, but there is a different approach in England.

I don't think it is good if everyone says 'yes' when they mean 'no.'

I don't complain if I get a hard tackle.

I think everybody can say that Luis Suarez is a very good player. He's scored so many goals in the Premier League, and he is definitely a quality player.

When big teams play each other, you automatically want to raise your game. You want to see what level you're at, and you know you have to step up.

I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.

I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.

Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.

My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.

Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.

I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.

Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.

When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.