If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

I'm always moving forward.

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.