You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb it's kind of what these movies are all about.

I for one am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

I loved old black and white movies especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs the music the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

When we shoot 24 there are so many things I have to worry about from the script to technical things to my performance that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season which is like making 12 movies.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

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