When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.