My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

What I love about IMAX is with its extraordinary resolution and color reproduction it's a very rich image with incredible detail. It lends itself wonderfully to huge shots with much in the frame. Thousands of extras and all the rest.