Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well, I'll certainly try to be very neat about my script like Martin, which I wasn't, but I'm not going to do that bit with the 4AM and the flashlight. I'd love to be able to say I was nervous, but I wasn't. The only time I ever had anxiety it turned out to be asthma.

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.