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" There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page. "

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" I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions. "

" The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess. "

" When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself. "

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" My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking. "

" Really original material is quite hard to find. "

" Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don't. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different. "

" The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into the shooting script. "

" I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way. "

" It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. "

" If I was being very honest about it, probably more honest than I should be, '28 Days Later' was a reaction to 'The Beach' in some ways because I felt it lacked a kind of aggression in it. "

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" I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic. "

" Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration. "

" I didn't like being a name attached to a book. "

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" I know some directors get very involved in trailers and posters. Some even cut their own. I stay completely away from it. I just see my job as making a film. "

" I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist. "

" I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories. "

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" If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not. "

" When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room. "

" I'm just interested in science, and I try to keep track of what's going on and get my head around it - inflation, the multiverse, whatever. It's very hard for me because I don't have a scientific background, and I wasn't any good at science at school, but all of that stuff I just find incredibly attractive and fascinating. "