Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could afford it...expect for my uncle George, who was a second father to me, and had every film in the world, and every book.

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

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