I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.

I'm more from a double world where I wasn't part of anything or invested in anything, because I was Irish, and very Irish, but also the other part of my family, not that it had airs, or money, was descended from the first minister on Cape Ann in the 1620s.

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

Casting is always subject to availabilities.

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

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

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