The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

I prefer writing originals.

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.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

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.

Different people work different ways.

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