Joe Cornish: 'Meeting Spielberg was exciting'

Joe Cornish has revealed that meeting Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson was "like meeting my maker".

In an interview with The Observer, the comedian explained that he managed to stay professional when he was invited to work on the pair's script for The Adventures of Tintin.

He said: "Meeting those guys was like meeting my maker. Spielberg and Jackson's films are hugely important to me. But I didn't giggle. I got on with the work.

"I put it out of my mind who they were in order to function, but every now and then Spielberg would say, 'When I was making Jaws...' and suddenly my mind would freeze as I was reminded."

Cornish added that working alone without the support of somebody like collaborator and friend Adam Buxton felt strange.

"It was a bit lonely," he said. "I missed the presence of an Adam, a co-conspirator. I'd love to do something with him one day - a musical, perhaps."

Cornish's directorial debut, sci-fi comedy Attack The Block, is released on May 13. He recently returned to BBC 6 Music with Buxton for a run of shows lasting 12 weeks.

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