I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.