My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.