The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

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

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

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.