A Camera Is A Camera, A Shot

I Don't Ever Like To Feel Myself In The Position To Demand Of An Actor That They Trust I'm Going To Do Something Worthwhile. I Feel A Responsibility To Articulate What It Is I'm Going To Do. Whether That's Showing Them A Full Script Or Sitting Down With Them And Describing My Ideas In Detail. It's A Very Healthy Burden On Me As A Film Director To Be Able To Articulate What I Want To Do, To Inspire Actors, Rather Than Just Saying, Take It On Trust I'll Be Able To Do Something Worthwhile.

Every Great Story Deserves A Great Ending

You Never Quite Know What You're Going To Come Back To And Figure Out How To Make It Work. You Never Quite Know Where That Desire To Finish Something, Or Return To Something In A Fresh Way, Is Going To Come From. Every Time I Finished A Film And Went Back And Looked At It, I Had Changed As A Person.

There's Very Few Directors I Think In This Industry That Would Pitch To A Studio That They Wanted To Do A Multi-layered Almost At Times Existential High Action, High Drama Surreal Film That's Sort Of Locked In His Mind. And Then Have An Opportunity To Do That.

Films Are Subjective - What You Like, What You Don't Like. But The Thing For Me That Is Absolutely Unifying Is The Idea That Every Time I Go To The Cinema And Pay My Money And Sit Down And Watch A Film Go Up On-screen, I Want To Feel That The People Who Made That Film Think It's The Best Movie In The World, That They Poured Everything Into It And They Really Love It. Whether Or Not I Agree With What They've Done, I Want That Effort There - I Want That Sincerity. And When You Don't Feel It, That's The Only Time I Feel Like I'm Wasting My Time At The Movies.