When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.
I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.