I'm A Big Sports Fan. Football. Cricket.

One Of Dickens' Biggest Influences Was The Growth Of London As A Victorian City, And The Extremes Being Created As It Expanded.

The Most Extraordinary Thing, You'd Be Given Permission For, And Then The Weirdest, Simplest Things, You Just Wouldn't Be Able To Obtain Permissions. And It Would Go On And On And On Forever And Ever, And There Was No Way To Know. You Have To Kind Of Approach It With An Open, Quite Optimistic Mind, No Matter What's Thrown At You, Because It Will Only Ever Result In Damaging The Film If You Let Any Kind Of Despondency Get To You.

I Like To Hide Behind My Intellect. But The Truth Is, Unless All Of Us Start Getting Honest About What The Reality Is, Things Aren't Going To Change. If We All Keep Pretending That We Know Stuff And If Everyone Else Would Do What We Knew And Everything Would Be A Better Place, Then Nothing Is Going To Change.

I Say To First Time Filmmakers That When They're Asked, They Should Go To America As You're Far More Likely To Get A Chance.

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!