America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.