My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.

I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.

Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.

Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.