I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportu….

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to..

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-b….

You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years, things are going to slightly change and ….

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit..

When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and ….

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and ever….

When we first made this whole idea this was going to be calling card film [Moon] and it was going to give the opportunity to make my first feature fi….

I'm a cruel man to myself..

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling..

There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird effect on people. It creates ….

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever intere….

The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things ….

When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, yo….

The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be ….

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think..

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is w….

The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people….

I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a lo….

For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart ….

Life and career kind of catches up with you..