Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

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

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.

I never write with particular actors in mind.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.