When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.

Casting is always subject to availabilities.

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

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.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

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.