People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time to happen, and I never felt that with this [the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo].

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.