I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

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.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.