The Problem With Being British... I Don't

I Find My Own Pain And Others' Difficult To Tolerate, So I Always Want To Try To Shift Things So They'll Be Better. But In Doing That, If I Am Coming From A Place Of Ego, I Often Cause Harm. So It's A Struggle For Me To Set My Ego Outside And Find A Softer And More Compassionate Way Of Approaching Things.

I Like Action Movies, Even Though I Think Action Movies Are Kind Of Derided Now. But There Is Something Extraordinary About Action Movies, Which Is Absolutely Linked To The Invention Of Cinema And What Cinema Is And Why We Love It.

There Are Three Huge, Titanic, Space Movies Which If You Ever Make A Film [about Space] You Cannot Avoid. You May Want To Avoid Them But You Cannot. I've Never Known A Genre Like It Where You Are Dictated To By These Films, 2001, Alien, And Tarkovsky's Solaris.

If The American Taxpayer Knew How Much They Paid Per Person To Put Neil Armstrong On The Moon They Would Never Have Paid It. It Was Hidden From Them Deliberately Because The Costs Were Astronomical.

I Made This Film 'the Beach,' Which Didn't Take Place In A City, And It Didn't Really Suit Me.