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

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.

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.

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.

Ed Harris seemed to be as a man, it seems, like a Clint Eastwood, this country is one that has produced more than one of this kind of man that's iconic and enormously appealing to the world, as part of American film culture.

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