Film Is Fragmented And Gets Into Lots

I Feel Like It's Important To Be Flexible, Particularly When I'm Coming In Late In The Game And I'm Connective Tissue In The Story. I'm Not At The Very Center. It's Important For Me To Have A Certain Kind Of Flexibility And Try To Help People Do What They Need To Do.

I Want To Work With People Who Are Good At What They Do, And People Who Are Passionate.

Mounting Those Red Stairs [in Cannes] Is Something I've Done With A Very Different Intention Many Times. So It's Interesting Any Time You Witness Those Shifts Of Perspective. The Beach Scenes Were Also Fun. It Felt Very Strange And Very Theatrical To Kind Of Commandeer It And Have La Mer Booming Over The Speakers.

I Think On Some Level, You Do Your Best Things When You're A Little Off-balance, A Little Scared. You've Got To Work From Mystery, From Wonder, From Not Knowing.

I'm Not Attracted To Naturalism, I'm Not Attracted To Behavior, I'm Attracted To Dance. I'm Attracted To Gesture, I'm Attracted To Singing With Your Voice, As Opposed To Having A Natural Manner. I'm A Theater Actor First, So That Probably Influences A Lot Of My Approach. And I Think In Many Ways, Naturalism Has Ruined Movies.