You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.