I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

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

Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

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.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.