You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

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.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.