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.

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

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

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.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.