Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

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

It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

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