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.

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.

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human.

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.