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

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.

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

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'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.

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.