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.

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

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

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

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

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