I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

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

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.