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" Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. "
More
Will
Used
" All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain. "
Trying
Know
Brain
" For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. "
Keys
Me
Shots
" I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. "
Film
Challenge
Canvas
" I don't think good and evil are polarized. "
Think
Evil
Good
" I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. "
Surprise
Movies
Competition
" If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. "
Shooting
Live
Through
" It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself. "
Day
Great
Every Day
" It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character. "
Long
Time
Me
" I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film. "
Style
Film
I Can
" I want to inspire, and be inspired. "
Want
Inspired
Inspire
" I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. "
Work
Big
Movies
" One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. "
Lifetime
Want
Movie
" One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this. "
Know
Think
Relationship
" Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. "
Tiny
Shooting
Pieces
" The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts. "
Before
Goes
Lifestyle
" The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. "
Than
Words
Me
" The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. "
Day
Wisdom
Movies
" There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it. "
Man
Devil
Family
" Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. "
Great
Words
Relationships
" When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white. "
Black
Green
Drive
" You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. "
Nothing
Opportunities
Number
" You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't. "
People
Gods
Lap
" You think about taking audiences on a journey. "
Think
You
Taking
" You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. "
Got
Survive
You
" You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images. "
Forward
Sit
Back
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