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

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

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

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