I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

I trained in the theatre.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.