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.

Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.

Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

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

You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.