Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I always say ideas are like fishing,

I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.