I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

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

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

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

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

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.

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