We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Of course I feel guilty about manipulating the audience, playing on their preconceptions in that way, ... But that's my job.

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.