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.

I always say ideas are like fishing,

Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.