Directing, I Get All Kinds Of Inspiration.

I Think Doing Period Piece Is Easier, Because After A Certain Distance, Everybody Is Equal, I Think. The Relative Contemporary Is Harder. I Think That's The Way It Is.

I Feel Like All Of My Characters Now Take This Congested Situation, They Clash, And From There You Purge Yourself.

When I Sent Those Scripts, That Was The Lowest Point Of My Life. We'd Just Had Our Second Son, And When I Went To Collect Them From Hospital, I Went To The Bank To Try And Get Some Money To Buy Some Diapers, The Screen Showed I've Got $26 Left.

When You Go For Something Because You're Curious About It, You Get Psyched Up About The Chance Of Getting Into It. It's Like An Actor Meets A Role, And You Slip Into That Body And See What Happens, To Experience Certain Conditions, To Adopt A Certain Character. Even Shooting Is A Study Of The Character. I Think Both The Character And The Actor, And Eventually The Filmmaker - Myself - Are Finding A Way To Accept Their Environment And Being Accepted And Feel Comfortable Of Themselves.

I Am Not Particularly Religious. But I Think We Do Face The Question Of Where God Is, Why We Are Created And Where Does Life Go, Why We Exist. That Sort Of Thing. And It Is Very Hard To Talk About It These Days, Because It Cannot Be Proven. It Is Hard To Discuss It Rationally.