I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

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.

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

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

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 interests me at that particular time.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

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

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 everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

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

I'm a cruel man to myself.

Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends

No man should live longer than his teeth.

If you try to send a clear signal to and call your SoulMate into your life, having unfinished business with your ex is like static on the line.

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.