Mark Romanek

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.