A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.