I am not against digital at all.

Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people ... well, I hope they do that.

Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.

There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said something like, in the future they will actually manipulate the actors on their computers. But don't believe all this.

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