I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

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

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

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

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