It's spiritual, a man that has a past and regrets, but you can as a director take a shot, and there's something in the eyes and the face, you just can't fake it, you can't teach it, and I think Ed Harris has that quality.

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.

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

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

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.

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