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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.

I suppose I'm going on stage and making jokes about the fact that the audience are expecting the show to be about something and that they might learn something.