I Decided To Be A Filmmaker When

There's Something About Being Cerebral, Intellectual, And Yet Emotionally Repressed [in Being Villain]. If You Think Someone's Doing This [bad] Stuff And They're In Complete Control, That's More Scary Than If They're Out Of Control.

American Movies Are Often Very Good At Mining Those Great Underlying Myths That Make Films Robustly Travel Across Class, Age, Gender, Culture.

A Lot Of Dramas Get A Bad Name Commercially Because They Are Unremittingly Bleak.

I Find That After A Screening, People Really Want To Come And Tell You What They Feel.

I Think Directors Can Become Overly Infatuated By Gilt And Gold, And The Word "lavish" And Everything Being Magnificent.