Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.