I Don't Want To Make Pompous, Serious

I Always Wanted To Make This Film Or Another Film. I Thought The Worst Thing You Could Do Was To React To Slumdog's Success In Some Way. I Thought It Would Be Really Foolish.

I've Always Wanted To Do A Space Movie.

I Find That People Find A Way Out Of Misery Through Humor And It's Humor That's Often Unacceptable To People Who Are Not In Quite Such A State Of Misery.

There Are Three Huge, Titanic, Space Movies Which If You Ever Make A Film [about Space] You Cannot Avoid. You May Want To Avoid Them But You Cannot. I've Never Known A Genre Like It Where You Are Dictated To By These Films, 2001, Alien, And Tarkovsky's Solaris.

We Want To See Drama Told In A Cathartic Way, With Power, With Emotion Where You Empathize And Then You're Frightened. All Those Feelings Charge Up In You And You Feel For The Story.