You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.