I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.

I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.