New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.
The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.
Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.
We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.
The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.
We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.
