I'm A Big Sports Fan. Football. Cricket.

I Say To First Time Filmmakers That When They're Asked, They Should Go To America As You're Far More Likely To Get A Chance.

Celluloid Will Be The Next Decade's Black And White.

You Use Elements Of Noir, But You Don't Want It To Be Too Noir-ish. You Don't Want It To Be Advertised As Though You're Asking People To Go And Watch An Updated Noir. I Don't Think They'll Go Do That. They Want To See A Modern Story.

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.

I Learned With 'the Beach' That I'm A Bit Better Lower Down The Radar.