If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.