That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

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

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

We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

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