I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.