I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

sort of to reintroduce life into the country, ... So that's the premise of it. It's got a good idea in it. I like that.

It won't be the people who were in the first one, They're too busy. Naomie Harris is doing [the sequels to] Pirates of the Caribbean , and Cillian Murphy is in Batman [ Begins ]. They're doing really well. So good luck to them, really.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.