F. Gary Gray

I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.

I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.