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At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.

My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.

Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.