Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally Ill write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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 carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

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.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Casting is always critical but in this case, 'The Way Back', I was looking internationally to a degree for an interesting mix of gentlemen, Irish, Polish, Russian and American. Not many people had the qualifications, people who would play the game, particular to this industry. So I had to research amongst the cast. They had to be very very prepared as we had to start shooting as soon as we could, there wasn't any time to talk, and there would only be three or four takes.