I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.