Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

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

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

I'm not a precious text protector, or anything like that, you know, because it's a much more vital form than that. You have to rock.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.