One of the things I loved about Cate and Rowan [Woods, the director] is they constantly challenged the script, in making choices that hadn't been made before,

She's very friendly in the sense she makes you feel comfortable. [But] she's not the chit-chat type when she's working,

I had about half a bottle of red wine and it kind of took the edge off me,

I would have probably felt better if I'd had a body double, ... But I figured if Cate was game ... I certainly wasn't going to be a wimp about it.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this