I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!