How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.