Rupert Miles Sanders (born 16 March 1971) is an English film director.
Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.
I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.
Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.
To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points. . . of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.
You've got pressure making any film, frankly. Whenever you're doing something in the public eye you have to silence it really, you can't read the blogs and take them at face value, you just have to say, 'I'm lucky enough to be in this position, to do this job'.
To me there's very few actresses who've had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes from such edgy films from Lost in Translation to Under the Skin - she's got an incredible body of work and the attitude and the toughness of her really is to me, the Major.
I think Kristen is incredibly brave. She played such a good version Bella Swan, people think Kristen Stewart is Bella Swan. She's not, you know? If you meet Kristen, she's wildly kind of giggly and vivacious and rebellious and naughty - all things that Bella Swan isn't.
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
I think whenever you cast someone, someone's going to be critical about it.
I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.