The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.