When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'