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.

In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and The Education of Henry Adams in the other, and because I was part of nothing I could observe everything without having anything personal invested in the findings.

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.

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

The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.