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Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.