I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
I am a sci-fi fan.
I trained in the theatre.
Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.
I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.
I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.
My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.