Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

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.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

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.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

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.