If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

I've looked at all of Hitler's speeches thinking that there's gotta be one where he's 'I'm Hitler!', but there weren't any. His speeches were all about hope and prosperity - he ran on a platform of peace and prosperity. Hitler speeches that makes him sound like a villain are pretty hard to find, he was very detached from what he was doing, he kept himself compartmentalised from it.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

My films do very well on home video.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.