Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.