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“I am very keen to do a film that's female-led.”
“Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.”
“I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.”
“I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.”
“Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.”
“I have very mixed feelings about big corporations. Oftentimes, they're more troublesome than not.”
“I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.”
“I love strong women.”
“I love 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner' and '2001.'”
“Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!”
“What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.”
“I've realized I've become a bit reactive to each film I do. After 'The Road,' I was desperate to do something that had color and warmth to it and a stronger sense of community.”
“I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.”
“When you have a major movie star, and then they're surrounded by local extras, it takes me out or makes me more conscious of what's going on, as opposed to losing myself in the movie.”
“It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.”
“For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.”
“I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.”
“My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.”
“There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.”
“I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.”