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

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.

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

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

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

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

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.