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

I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.

When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film in those days, whether it was Technicolor or Technicolor plus the flatness of the light, or whatever.

Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.