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

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

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.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.