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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.