I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.