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.

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.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

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

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.