People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. There's all kinds of reasons. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.

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.

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

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

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