If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.

I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

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

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

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

If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.