We knew it was a lot of pressure, but it never bothered her, never shook her. We knew then she was solid. She's very serious, even now. She's a tactician, a technician. Everything's got to be perfect.

I think it was about 30 days after she started taking formal lessons. She actually started sight reading from the book and our mouths were hanging open . . . That's when I knew she was way beyond her age.

When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

I went to Poland for the Warsaw Film Festival, and it was quite an intense experience. I didn't think it would be, but it did feel quite emotional to go back to this place I'd heard so much about.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.