You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, a fine film, very interesting, but as for studio pictures, that's it, what else? There was more only a few years ago. So it changes, and I'm trying as much as I can.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

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.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed