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

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.

When I was a kid in London there was just something about the light and there's something about the way London went onto film in those days, whether it was Technicolor or Technicolor plus the flatness of the light, or whatever.

They're done by guys who have talked a good game and then have scrambled together the simulacrum of a drama, so actors are habituated to sometimes having to save a picture on the floor because it's usually part of their job, but they'd rather have a writer doing his job, so that they can do theirs. But I like nothing better than working with actors.

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

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.