Brian Cox Is The Nicest Guy, But

There's Lots Of Things That Can Be Solved With Cash. And There's Occasional Things That Can't Be Solved With Cash, Which Become A Bureaucratic Nightmare For Some Reason, And There's No Distinction Between The Two.

One Of The Things In The Mary Shelley [frankenstein] Is That The Creature Tells His Story, So This Begins With The Creature's Point Of View. So, It Literally Starts With The Creature Opening His Eyes And Is Born - But Is Obviously In His 30s. But Because They're The Creator And The Created We Thought It Would Be Really Interesting If They Could Look At Each Other Every Other Night And Play Each Other's Roles.

We're Trying To Learn From [olympic] Beijing, Which Could Be Very Intimidating. We've Learned To Expect It's Power, It Majesty And That It Completes A Cycle Of Certain Types Of Shows... I Don't Think Any Nation Could Do Anything On That Scale. We Haven't Got That Money, And I Don't Think Anybody Would Have The Appetite For That Kind Of Expenditure And That Kind Of Control, So We're Going To Try And Do Something A Bit More Intimate And Try And Start Again... Start A New Cycle For These Kind Of Ceremonies.

Everybody Knows Aaron Sorkin's Scripts. There's A Huge Amount Of Lines. There's A Huge Amount Of Interchange. You Gotta Do A Lot Of Learning To Be Able To Get It Up To Pace.

I Don't Want To Make Pompous, Serious Films.