The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.