The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.