Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart.
Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was.
I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.
A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.
If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.
Acting is way of making yourself exist.