Although I Behave In A Quite Reserved

Normally, I'm A Very Controlling Director. Directors Are Controlling. It's Part Of The Job, But There's Various Degrees Of It And The Constructs I Normally Work On Are Very Controlling Constructs.

If You Love A Book You Tend Not To Follow Its Surface Value, You Follow The Other Things In It.

I Haven't Got Anything Against Films That Are About The Minutia Of Relationships Or Customs, But I Love Extremes. I Love Taking A Bunch Of Characters And It Usually Is A Bunch Of Characters, And You Throw Something At Them That's Usually Extreme, Like A Bag Of Money, Or You Send Them Out To Explode A Nuclear Device On The Surface Of The Sun. And Those Extremes Are Wonderful For Drama.

You Can Do Anything You Like - Really - But This Sci-fi Is Absolutely Disciplined, It's Zen, You Have To Be Absolutely Focused In An Area. You Have To Zone Into An Area And You Then You Can Achieve When You Get There. It's Really Weird!

Actors Want To Impress At The Beginning, So You Take Advantage Of That By Suddenly Saying, 'right, You're Here For Two Weeks.' What You're Doing Is Creating A Siege Mentality.