I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

To me, the most interesting approach to film noir is subjective. The genre is really all about not knowing what's going on around you, and that fear of the unknown. The only way to do that effectively is to really get into the maze, rather than look at the maze from above, so that's where I sort of come at it.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

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.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.