It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

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

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.

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.

One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of view. So, it literally starts with the creature opening his eyes and is born - but is obviously in his 30s. But because they're the creator and the created we thought it would be really interesting if they could look at each other every other night and play each other's roles.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.