I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.

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

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

I think whenever you cast someone, someone's going to be critical about it.

To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points... of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.