Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
“I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.”
“You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.”