The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

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

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

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

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

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

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.