The Worst Thing Is To Get Involved

It's Too Easy To Trivialize People. The Internet Does It All The Time.

Film Is An Editor's Medium. You Can Create Very Good Raw Material And They Can Make It Horrible, Or You Can Do Not So Well And They Can Make It Beautiful. You Don't Really Know.

The Midwest Isn't Somewhere You Mix With Those From The Performing Arts. But My Mum And Dad Would Go Off To Chicago Every So Often To See Shows. They Would Bring Back The Albums And The Movies, Those Little Eight Metres, And We Would All Watch. I Think That Was When I Fell In Love With Acting.

I'm An Optimist. I Hope If A Movie's Good That It Will Be A Success, But That's Not Always True, Just Because Of Popular Taste Or Any Other Reasons. When Something Doesn't Do Better Than It Deserves To In Your Mind, It's Pretty Transparent - You Usually Know Why. Is That A Comfort? Yes, Because It's Logical. Does It Make You Happy? No, Because If You Think A Movie Is Beautiful Or Interesting, You Want To Share It. Sometimes You Make Very Interesting Movies That Aren't Meant For Everybody. But This Is A Capitalist Society, So Everything Conspires To Put Value On Whether It Sells Or Not.

I Like To Work With People Of Different Cultures, Different Points Of View. But Yeah, I Feel Much More Comfortable. That's The Problem I Sometimes Have With Going To Hollywood. I Feel Like They Don't Share The Same Values As I Do. They Aren't Interested In The Same Things. It's Not Always True, But Sometimes, I Feel It Deeply, Because As An Industry, They Celebrate Things That I'm Less Interested In, And It's All About The Business.