As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
I miss my mother very, very much.
I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.
The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
There's nothing more painful than writing.
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
