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I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.