What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

See the opportunity in the misstep.