Cinema Is A Matter Of What's In

I Was Rather Shaken By All The Green Trees. I Always Am. It Gets Me. I Don't Want To Be Funny About It But I Am. I Loved Seeing All The Westerns, But I Had Asthma And Couldn't Go Anywhere, But I Loved Watching Them In Technicolor And Seeing The Cowboys And The Landscapes Of Monument Valley And You'd See The Forests Of The Anthony Mann Films And Think, 'wow, That's Fantastic', But I Could Never Go There!

Eradicating A Religion Of Kindness Is, I Think, A Terrible Thing For The Chinese To Attempt.

I Do Prefer Doing More Takes. There's Something Very Organic That Comes From The First Take, But Certain Things Come Out. More Details Come Out, In The Way Another Actor Says Something. It's Always This Investigative Process. You Come Further And Further To The Truth, The More You Escalate. I Like To Do A Lot Of Takes. I Have A Hunger For It. I Like To See What There Is To Discover In A Scene, That Hasn't Been Thought Of.

Being A Father At A Later Age Is Different From When I Had My Other Two Daughters When I Was In My 20s And 30s. If You're In Your 60s And You're With The Kid Every Day, You're Dealing With The Mind Of A Child, So It Opens Up That Childishness In You Again.

[david Lean's] Images Stay With Me Forever. But What Makes Them Memorable Isn't Necessarily Their Beauty. That's Just Good Photography. It's The Emotion Behind Those Images That's Meant The Most To Me Over The Years. It's The Way David Lean Can Put Feeling On Film. The Way He Shows A Whole Landscape Of The Spirit. For Me, That's The Real Geography Of David Lean Country. And That's Why, In A David Lean Movie, There's No Such Thing As An Empty Landscape.