I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.