It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this. ' And that's magic.
I just like doing things from my own head.
I love insects. They are amazing.
I never write with an actor in mind - never.
Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.
Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
The fruit of faith is love.
One of my earliest memories was President [J. F. ] Kennedy's funeral. I actually remember sitting on the floor in the living room looking at our black-and-white television and watching the caisson roll by and hearing the clip-clop of the horses. It's actually one of my earliest memories.
I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important.