Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.

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

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

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

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.