One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.