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

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 shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

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

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

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

That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control