We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

I'm not a 'Star Wars' geek.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.