I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.