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Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.