All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.