I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.