Casting The Locals Is My Primary Concern

A Lot Of Times, You're Not Necessarily Off The Page Because You Haven't Been Able To Take The Time To Prepare A Character. It's Very Easy To Find Even Great Actors Reading It More Like A Reading. Things Aren't Really Coming Alive Yet, Even Though You Know They Will.

Once You're Directing, You're Kind Of In A Certain Mode, Where You're Taking Whatever Is On The Page And Forming It Into The Film That You Think It Might Want To Be. So Whether It's My Writing Or Not, I Still Try To Work With It In The Same Way.

My Department Is To Get Actors To Do Stuff.

I Think Over The Course Of 14 Films, I'm Returning To A Place That I Know To Tell A Story... The Same Way Spielberg Returned To Fantasy, Lucas Returned To The 'star Wars' Saga, Or John Ford Returned To The Western.

The Reason I Know About 'tomb Raider' Is From When I Was Researching 'elephant.' It Was 1999, And I Was Trying To Research The Columbine-massacre Kids, And They Had Played Video Games, And I, At The Time, Had Never Really Seen One. It Was A World I Didn't Know.