You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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