It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
You dont know someone until you know what they want.
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. . . That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done. I'm interested in finding people who I think have a voice - and a very specific voice.
I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.
What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?