I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.

I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.