Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.