It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I don't think good films have messages.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

You are more than just flesh and bones

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.