And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.