Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands...

Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.

Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

Being a geek is extremely liberating

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.