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

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

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

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

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

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 became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping 'The Way Back' screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging moments, and to hold the music back, so it would never lead you to an emotion, and to try to make the emotions as real as I could.