The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.