You never know what people are going to go and see.

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

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

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.