We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

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.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

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

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?