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 Geo….

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his jo….

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense since the director….

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

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and….

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 yo….

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 real….

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean..

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 t….

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant..

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others..

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director..

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general..

Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done..

I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on ….

The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand natu….

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the t….

Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance….

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map o….

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..

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics..