There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.