Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.
I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.
There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.
The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.
I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.
I think sci-fi can easily be PG.
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.