I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at." It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.