I Don't Have Anything To Prove To

To Me, Achieving Tone, Achieving Consistency, Is Exactly The Job Of A Director. It Is To Be The Fusing, The Nexus Of A Whole Bunch Of People Contributing To The Complex Life Of A Movie. There Are Actors, There's A Cinematographer, There're Costume People, Set People, There Are All These Things, And You Somehow Have To Be The Person In The Middle Of It Who Is Making It All Synchronize Into The Same Magic Bubble.

There's A Lot Of Romanticisation Of The Intuitive Actor And Method Acting And All Kinds Of Notions About Getting Inside A Character And Coming Out From There.

When People Come Together Too Young, They Try To Become One Person. As You Get Older, You Realize That You Don't Want To Become One Person Because Then You Lose The Person You Are.

On The Downside, To Paraphrase Thom Yorke Talking About The Music Business, We're Still Having To Deal With The Stench Of The Last Fart Of The Dying Corpse Of This Regressive Vision That America Is A White, Middle-aged, Male, Conservative Country.

I Think Technology Is Having A Democratising Effect On Film.