I Always Thought The Joy Of Reading

I Want To Be Surprised And Entertained By A Movie, So That's What We're Trying To Do For The Audience. Obviously, We Also Have To Sell The Film.

I Think Audiences Get Too Comfortable And Familiar In Today's Movies. They Believe Everything They're Hearing And Seeing. I Like To Shake That Up.

Films Are Subjective - What You Like, What You Don't Like. But The Thing For Me That Is Absolutely Unifying Is The Idea That Every Time I Go To The Cinema And Pay My Money And Sit Down And Watch A Film Go Up On-screen, I Want To Feel That The People Who Made That Film Think It's The Best Movie In The World, That They Poured Everything Into It And They Really Love It. Whether Or Not I Agree With What They've Done, I Want That Effort There - I Want That Sincerity. And When You Don't Feel It, That's The Only Time I Feel Like I'm Wasting My Time At The Movies.

My Approach With Actors Is To Try And Give Them Whatever It Is They Need From Me. Direction To Me Is About Listening And Responding And Realizing How Much They Need To Know From Me And How Much They Have Figured Out For Themselves, Really.

Writing, For Me, Is A Combination Of Objective And Subjective Approach. You Take An Objective Approach At Times To Get You Through Things, And You Take A Subjective Approach At Other Times, And That Allows You To Find An Emotional Experience For The Audience.