Actors Enjoy Being Treated As Ordinary People.

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

American Cinema Tends To Express A Patriotic Relationship To National Identity On A Regular Basis.

Great Acting Is All About Being In The Moment, Being In The Present Tense.

I Was Always Obsessed With Finding Truly Researched Images To Add Authenticity, Out Of That Came Something Totally Contemporary And Modern. Research Is Very Key To My Process Because Over And Over Again, Reality Provides More Interesting Images Than You Could Have Invented.

I Would Say L.a. Is More Polite Than London - It's A Very Careful Place. People Talk A Lot In Code.