I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.