Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.

I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.