The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.