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You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I love cities.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

I am a sci-fi fan.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.