How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

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