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.

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.

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