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.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

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.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

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.