The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.