I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

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.