Occupation: Film Director Birth: May 10, 1966
I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and killing the monster. I ….
I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while..
America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Amer….
The problem with the British film industry is that it's really the American film industry, or a small branch of in lots of ways because of the common….
I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic and I'm not a comic person, it's just not my thing, s….
The problem with American cinema is that because you're making films with huge amounts of money you need to hit the lowest common denominator in orde….
I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time, then that's great. But other scene….
As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution..
People start realising that I'm a responsible filmmaker and I'm not going to run away with the budget or do anything stupid. I think it probably depe….
The way I generally work is that I do try to leave as many decisions as I possibly can to the day of, because it feels like that's where you're most ….