If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.