For A Lot Of My Childhood, I

New Zealand Is Not Used To Wealth. In America Wealth Is Kind Of A Thing Of Pride. Here It's The Opposite. The More You've Got, The Bigger The Target You Are.

I Find That In The Process Of Making A Film You're Constantly Discovering Things That You Never Even Imagined Would Work At The Beginning. Actors Come Into The Film And Do Things You Never Even Imagined. Production Designers Come In, The Director Of Photography Lights It In A Way That You Never Imagined. So, It's Always Evolving, Always Exciting.

Structure Is Important In Film, But There's Often Structure To Be Found In The Most Unlikely Of Places! It's Quite Possible To Build A Structured Story And Retain Idiosyncrasy.

I Think That You Can Treat A Classic Like A Museum Piece -stuffed And Mounted- Or You Can Make It A Living, Breathing Narrative That Is Unfolding Right Then And There.

There's No Real Rules About What You Do [while Directing]; It's Just You Just Use Your Instincts As To The Pacing Of A Film And What Is Repetitive And What Is The Minimum Amount You Can Get Away With To Tell The Story, That Scene Didn't Make It In.