In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

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.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

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.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.