There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.

The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.

I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

Eight years ago, I was a waiter, and I didn't have a pot to piss in. And now...? It's like I said to my wife: I love the fact that, if I was in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg walked in, I could go up to him and say, 'Hey, mate, how are you?' I think that's pretty amazing, actually.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.