You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.

It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'