I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.