I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.

I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral message because that would exclude so many people from feeling that it was their film and it's important for a piece of work to feel owned by every member of the audience.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.

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

The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.

In The Deep End, you have a woman who looks like a J. Crew mother who can manage it all. Then we begin to realize what's going on inside. Every time I see one of those women stuck at a stoplight with the children in the back of her car, I sort of think, "What have you just done? What's going on in your life?".