I Decided To Be A Filmmaker When

Actors Enjoy Being Treated As Ordinary People.

I Find That After A Screening, People Really Want To Come And Tell You What They Feel.

There's Something About Being Cerebral, Intellectual, And Yet Emotionally Repressed [in Being Villain]. If You Think Someone's Doing This [bad] Stuff And They're In Complete Control, That's More Scary Than If They're Out Of Control.

Sometimes Your Body Language Is Enough For An Actor To Know That You're Not Happy. And You Don't Really Need To Say It Out Loud If You Deal With Actors You Know Very Well. And I Don't Think You Really Need To Be Explicit.

After My Grandfather's Plane Took Enemy Fire, He Was Denied Permission To Land At The First Available Airstrip. In That Classic British Bureaucratic Way, They Said He Had To Go Back To Your Own Airbase In The Midlands. They Crashed Between The Coast And The Airfield.