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

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 was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.