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.

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

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.

If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.