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

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.

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

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'm a cruel man to myself.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

I'm always interested in new things. I don't go seeking out every band I can hear because there are too many, especially now with the Internet. There's no way you can collect everything.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

A unicorn is a donkey from the future

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.