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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.