We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

Maybe there is a sort of a sweet middle ground there, where you can do something with something with like 20 to 40 million and do something which is much more character driven, but still create a sort of visual spectacle around it. That is what I'd like to do.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.