I Really Enjoy Listening To Stories. I

This Was Pointed Out To Me By Somebody Who Referred To The Paintings Of Rembrandt And His Use Of Light: Some Elements Are Highlighted While Others Are Obscured Or Even Pushed Back Into The Dark. And It's Something That We Do - We Bring Out Elements That We Want To Emphasise.

It's Not So Much A Question Of Whether We've Shot It Through 35mm Or Digital Video; What Is Important Is Whether The Audience Accepts It As Real.

When We Start Shooting I Don't Have Rehearsals With Characters At All. So, Rather Than Pulling Them Towards Myself, I Travel Closer To Them; It's Very Much Closer To The Real Person Than Anything I Try To Create. So I Give Them Something But I Also Take From Them.

This Kind Of Directing, I Think, Is Very Similar To Being A Football Coach. You Prepare Your Players And Place Them In The Right Places, But Once The Game Is On, There's Nothing Much You Can Do - You Can Smoke A Cigarette Or Get Nervous, But You Can't Do Much.

In The Total Darkness, Poetry Is Still There, And It Is There For You.