The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.