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I set out to do a horror film with ‘Dog Soldiers,’ and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.
I thought ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’ was a masterpiece.
My dad’s a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian’s Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.
I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don’t want to be too predictable.
I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go!
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.
With the exception of ‘Descent,’ that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn’t seen anything like that before.
I don’t really have a life outside of movies. But I like to climb mountains and walk the dogs. I like fine wines and good restaurants.
The guys on ‘Game of Thrones’ trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don’t mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like ‘Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?’ With ‘Constantine,’ too, they really trust me to scare the audience.
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you’ve got nowhere to go.
There’s a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.
Pretty much every society, every culture in the world has some version of the Arthur legend, so everybody knows it; certainly in the western world, everybody knows King Arthur, but nobody knows what happens next.
One episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ is equivalent to my film ‘Centurion’ in budget and scope. ‘Centurion’ has a longer running time, but that’s kind of the only difference, and I think people now, if they want drama, they watch TV.
The score I always have on heavy repeat is ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark!’
I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That’s perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn’t have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah.
I don’t think they’re gratuitous with the nudity on ‘Game of Thrones.’ It’s very much part of the world. There’s a lot of it, but that’s the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.
Shooting against greenscreen… my choice of filming is, like, I’d rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I’d rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.
I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don’t want to be too predictable.
