The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.