For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie..

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images..

Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie….

Confidence is essential, but ego is not..

I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. S….

I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's somethi….

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words..

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it.….

You think about taking audiences on a journey..

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in g….

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie..

Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal..

The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. I….

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts..

I don't think good and evil are polarized..

I want to inspire, and be inspired..

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character do….

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first….

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prod….

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't….

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't..