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.

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

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.

The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.