I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else..

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything..

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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..

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

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

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

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….