You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.

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.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.