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.

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.

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned.

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.

I didn't go to film school.

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.

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

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.

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