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

They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of a drama, so actors are habituated to sometimes having to save a picture on the floor because it's usually part of their job, but they'd rather have a writer doing his job, so that they can do theirs. But I like nothing better than working with actors.

I never write with particular actors in mind.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

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

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.

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