Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.