Every Time You Make Something That Somebody

People Are Sort Of Numb To Watching Violence, But Sexual Activity Is Still As Strong As It Ever Was In Terms Of Generating Response.

The Best Set Was Probably 'bloody Sunday.' We Had No Money For Extras And Gambled On Months Of Outreach To Persuade The People Of Derry To Turn Out And March For Us On One Single Afternoon. And They Did. In Their Tens Of Thousands. Seeing Them March, Their Patience And Their Dignity And Their Commitment, I Knew The Movie Would Have A Quality Of Truth.

Everybody, Including Me, Has To Submit To What It Needs To Be. The Thing Is At The Top Of The Pyramid, The Best Version Of The Thing; We All Have To Serve That. You Forget That At Your Own Risk. And I Think Movies Are Too Long, In General.

But My Sense In Talking To People When I Travel Is That The Film Business Is Not That Dissimilar From A Lot Of Other Businesses.

The Muscle Memory Of Filtering Away All The Wrong Versions Of What You're Doing Improves The More Time You're On A Film Set. I Feel Like My Problem-solving Algorithm Got Kicked Up A Notch.