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

For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in the only literary form in which you can still make money. There are no famous novelists, not as novelists used to be famous.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but everybody has read the script, except the journalist attacking it.

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

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.