The best stories come out of the truth.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.