I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.