Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

To me there's very few actresses who've had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes from such edgy films from Lost in Translation to Under the Skin - she's got an incredible body of work and the attitude and the toughness of her really is to me, the Major.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.