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

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

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

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.