We in the U.S. think of ghosts as floating, ephemeral spirits. But in Japan, ghosts are taken much more seriously, and they take on a more physical presence–Joshua Jackson

I think of the film as a nonfiction horror movie. The imagery is designed to take the viewer into the moment the photographs were taken, as well as to evoke the nightmarish, hallucinatory quality of Abu Ghraib–Errol Morris

It‚Äôs a part literally written for me, and it‚Äôs a character that I knew exactly how to do. When I wrote Good Night, and Good Luck, I wrote the Murrow part for myself. Then as a director, I looked at it and thought, ‚ÄòMurrow always has this sense of sadness to him, this weight‚Äîburden on his shoulders‚Äî-no matter what he does, even if he‚Äôs laughing.‚Äô That‚Äôs not something people necessarily ascribe to me, and it‚Äôs not something you can act. It‚Äôs something you either have or you don‚Äôt”–George Clooney

I have always been intrigued by the idea of classic storytelling, in the timeless way people have told stories round the campfire for generations. When your subject matter is early man, you have the opportunity to tell very rich heroic stories in which one character has to do the almost impossible. I wanted to make a movie that would allow audiences to fall into this other world that looks and feels like nothing they have ever seen–Emmerich

When I first envisioned the movie in the middle of the 1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American Cinema, its violence, its na?Øvet?©, the way American Cinema toys with human beings. In many American films violence is made consumable–Michael Haneke