In The Land Of Ideas, You Are

My Experience Over The Years With Working With People Who Are Not Actors Or Not Trained Actors Is That You Have To Get To Know Them Well Enough To See What They Have That's Translatable Onto The Screen. So You're Constantly Calibrating To Play To Their Strengths. And The Key Is To Never Ask Them To Do Things That Are Beyond Their Abilities Or Are Really Far Away From Who They Are At Their Core.

I Recently Decided That I'm Not An Originator. I'm A Synthesist.

The Best Set Was Probably 'bloody Sunday.' We Had No Money For Extras And Gambled On Months Of Outreach To Persuade The People Of Derry To Turn Out And March For Us On One Single Afternoon. And They Did. In Their Tens Of Thousands. Seeing Them March, Their Patience And Their Dignity And Their Commitment, I Knew The Movie Would Have A Quality Of Truth.

I Think I'm Good At Amplifying An Actor's Strengths, And Minimizing Their Weaknesses. And They All Have Strengths And Weaknesses.

Well, It's 15 Years Since Sex, Lies And Videotape, And If You Hang Around Long Enough You're Having The Same Arguments With Just A New Set Of People Every Few Years And It Gets Boring.