Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.