Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.