Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

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.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

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

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.