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For Me, It's Just A Normal Artistic Endeavour To Explore The Dark Side. Certainly, I'm Not Alone In It. Artists Generally Don't Like To Accept The Version Of Reality That Society And Culture Hand Them. They Want To Know What's Really Going On. So You're Always Looking In The Ceilings, Under The Floorboards And Behind The Walls, Trying To Find The Mechanisms, The Structures, And The Truth. I Find That Often Leads You Into Some Dark Places.

I Work With My Dreams Or Nightmares.

Casting Is Really A Black Art. It's A Huge Part Of Directing And It's The Most Invisible. It's One That People Don't Really Think About Or Talk About. But You Can Really Destroy Your Movie By Casting It Badly Before You've Shot A Foot Of Film. And Yet There Are No Guidebooks For It, There's No Rule Book To Tell You How To Do It. It's All Your Own Experience And Your Own Sensibility And Your Own Intuition.

I Also Think The Relationship I Have With My Audience Is A Lot More Complex Than What Hitchcock Seemed To Want His To Be - Although I Think He Had More Going On Under The Surface As Well.

Each Kid Has A Different Level Of Expertise And Some Of Them Are Very Raw And Inexperienced And Some Are Incredibly Mature And Experienced. So You Just Have To Go With What They Are Rather Than Have Some Abstract Technique That You're Going To Try To Apply To Them.