Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look fo….

Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But ….

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it..

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate..

I love a chance to shoot real locations, because in films in the earlier days before people traveled as much, it was exotic to see a film set in Swit….

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder..

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas whic….

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees..

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and th….

You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, ….

I've done a number of things that get categories closed off in a way, so when I read 'The Long Walk' by Slavomir Rawicz and decided to do film, 'I th….

Casting is always critical but in this case, 'The Way Back', I was looking internationally to a degree for an interesting mix of gentlemen, Irish, Po….

I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping 'The Way Back' screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging mo….

Music stops you from thinking..

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue a….

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing..

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location..

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space..

The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether its a artifact ….

Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely..

I think Ed Harris is a conscious screen actor, so I think it was strong, it was like he put everything together somehow in 'The Way Back'. He likes, ….