It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.

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

If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.

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

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.