I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It's almost the point of cinema - it's time-based and movement-based.
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I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
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A lot of directors don't really like actors.
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I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.
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An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
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I'm not good when idle.
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Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.