When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me.

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.