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When You Have Children Your Own Hypocrisy Becomes More Apparent Because You're Telling Them How To Behave, And You're Not Behaving Like That Yourself. So It Obliges One To Really Go In And Try To Look At Why There Is A Huge Gulf Between How One Knows One Wants To Behave And How One Actually Does Behave.

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.

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.

You Live Your Life And It Ends Quite Quickly And All You Can Do With It Is Pass It On Decently To Someone Else. Whether Directly Or Indirectly, Behave Decently To Other People.

Even Though One Of Them Is About An Edinburgh Junkie And Ones A Little Boy Of Eight In Manchester, You Want Them To Always Portray Their World In Such A Vivid Way That The Audience Can Disappear Inside The Story.