Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.