You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I like the George Romero films which were really great social satire movies really twisted.

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I was always raised on cowboy films and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

I've seen many many movies over the years and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books they're not the theatre.