Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but everybody has read the script, except the journalist attacking it.