The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.