I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

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 love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

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

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.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

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.