I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.