I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.

Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

I've always been a DVD geek and, before that, a laser disc fanatic, too.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.