I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.