The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.