I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.
It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.
Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.
I kept hearing about this incredible guy called Tom Hardy. I started watching his work, and I was awestruck - he was amazing.
Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.
There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.
We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.
I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.
Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.
'The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'
I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.
The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian cookery writers.
It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.
I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.
What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.
I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.
I love strong women.
I have always thought of films as stories for the world.
