If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.

There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could afford it...expect for my uncle George, who was a second father to me, and had every film in the world, and every book.

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written.

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

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.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.