I Grew Up Mostly In The South,

[i Watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, Mctiernan. Just People Who Are Good At Staging Action. I Like To Know Where I Am. I Don't Like The Kind Of Cutting Where You Don't Know Where You Are.

I Grew Up Mostly In The South, And There's Definitely Something About The South That's Different From The North. When People Ask Me Where I'm From, I Say Louisiana. I Spent More Years There Than Anywhere Else.

There's Nothing Else Exactly Like It In Any Other Art Form, The Orchestration Of So Many Different Elements. It's Endlessly Fascinating What Can Be Done Editorially. You Can Create Meaning Where There Was None, You Can Create Feeling Where There Was None, You Can Create Narrative Where There Was None. Two Frames Can Be The Difference Between Something That Works And Something That Doesn't. It's Fascinating.

The Best Set Was Probably 'bloody Sunday.' We Had No Money For Extras And Gambled On Months Of Outreach To Persuade The People Of Derry To Turn Out And March For Us On One Single Afternoon. And They Did. In Their Tens Of Thousands. Seeing Them March, Their Patience And Their Dignity And Their Commitment, I Knew The Movie Would Have A Quality Of Truth.

All Human Interaction, You Can Break It Down To Incentives. All Relationships, At Some Level, Are Transactional. They're Fascinated With Incentives.