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

With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keeping it very simple is you might loose some of the audience because it's not overt, it's hidden, not coming at you. Then you might cut through to some of this numbness and reach something profound and tragic.

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

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.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

Music stops you from thinking.