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

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

I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available.

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

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

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.

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.