It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

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.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.