Cinema Is A Matter Of What's In

That Subject Matter Has Never Left Me...the More You're In The Material World, The More There Is A Tendency For A Search For Serenity And A Need To Not Be Distracted By Physical Elements That Are Around You.

Vertigo Is Probably My Favourite Hitchcock Film And Probably One Of My Favourite Films Of All Time. It's A Film That I'm Obsessed With. I Saw It On Its First Release In Vista Vision, Projected In Vista-vision, At The Capitol Theatre In New York. That Moment When The Nun Comes Up In The End... It's Just An Extraordinary Shot.

In Truly Great Films - The Ones That People Need To Make, The Ones That Start Speaking Through Them, The Ones That Keep Moving Into Territory That Is More And More Unfathomable And Uncomfortable - Nothing's Ever Simple Or Neatly Resolved. You're Left With A Mystery.

I'm Very Phobic About Flying, But I'm Also Drawn To It.

Always Get To The Set Or The Location Early, So That You Can Be All Alone And Draw Your Inspiration For The Blocking And The Setups In Private And Quiet. In One Sense, It's About Protecting Yourself; In Another Sense, It's About Always Being Open To Surprise, Even From The Set, Because There May Be Some Detail That You Hadn't Noticed. I Think This Is Crucial. There Are Many Pictures That Seem Good In So Many Ways Except One: They Lack A Sense Of Surprise, They've Never Left The Page.