My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for and I went, "Ron, I'm waiting to know the secret. I keep feeling there's some sort of secret that's going to passed on from a director." He went, "Oh no. There is none. You've just got to on and do it and make mistakes and figure it out."

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.