The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.