There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.