That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

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

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

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

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

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