I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I take every possible side.

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.