I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

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

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.

I never write with particular actors in mind.