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….

What we love that 'The Way Back' is not subsidized, it's alive and kicking. And if I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell w….

In terms of how I work with actors, having worked so heavily on the script I have a very clear idea of the characters; they are reasonably well illus….

I always thought the editor should cut the film and so I'll come in and look at the movie. Just because that's the only way I can really see the idea….

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised..

With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keepin….

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much..

Sixty-five days principle photography, five-day weeks, which is the only way I'll work. With my cinematographer Russell Boyd, we take as much time as….

It's spiritual, a man that has a past and regrets, but you can as a director take a shot, and there's something in the eyes and the face, you just ca….

Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasi….

Ed Harris seemed to be as a man, it seems, like a Clint Eastwood, this country is one that has produced more than one of this kind of man that's icon….

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity..

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, ….

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 ….

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

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….

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

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….

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….