Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

other kids pack lunch

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.

I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

Every filmmaker's different, every filmmaker has a different approach.