Based on some of the nominees, I wouldn't let some Academy voters hold the remote to my TV, yet alone vote in awards that can make tens of millions of dollars of difference to a film's bottom line.

Once in every relationship, you can get away with the “It’s got that person from that thing you like” line

I’m a passionate believer that a book is not a film, and shouldn’t thus be treated with outright reverence.

Rather than having huge amounts of costume changes, if you use your brain, you can be right under someone’s nose and they don’t know it.

“It’s £25 even for a choirboy, and we scrobbled a lot of those” is the kind of line you don’t hear often enough.

I would say probably, on a given film, Fight Club is probably closest to what we wanted to do. It’s about 75 per cent of what we wanted.

There’s been talk of doing about a minute and a half, two minutes, of new animation for it, that were some sequences that we designed in the original, that I think were cool

If the occasionally breathtaking photography of Ghost Protocol gives you spectacle, it’s the willingness to cut the sound to the bare minimum that injects plenty of tension