Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography.

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.