I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

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.

If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

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.

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.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer.

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