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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

I don't think I would want to do an animated movie because I've already made so many hours of animation that what's the point? I'd want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.