When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.