My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.