I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.