I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.

I'm really interested in people's decisions.