All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and directors - or at least a great majority of them - live in fear because we're all insecure, we all want that next job, we all want to be loved, and we don't want to piss off some studio chief who won't hire us for the next movie.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

If you're in a relationship and you try to trust somebody who's completely untrustworthy, when trust is the basis of any relationship and everyone else says not to trust, is love transformative.

I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.

I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.