I think we are probably at a point now where this plan is not going to get substantially better or worse. I wish there was another development somewhere that I could point to, make some phone calls and talk to the residents. There isn't. There are no projects to point to in order to say this will work or not, but it is meeting Clive's standards.

That's been Clive's standard since before I got here - trying to be above the bar. We have for the most part during my time tried to incrementally increase the bar as we went along on different projects when we found new materials or better ways of designing. Just about every year that I've been here, we've made edits to the zoning ordinance.

Raising standards with a broad brush is one thing, but you do need to understand all of the technical ramifications which will trickle down through all aspects of development. The hard part for people to grasp is that plans may be just a picture on a piece of paper, but from the other side of the coin, every dot making up every line on that picture equals money.

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on 'Jumper' was done 'Swingers'-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.