I love cooking and kitchens.It's just a great world, and I wanted to explore it. You see the façade, the outside, the public part, and then you just walk through one door marked "Staff Only" and you're in a different universe.

I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established, then you can start to take liberties. I believe that as this unfolds people will find the time invested worthwhile.

Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.

Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.