“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”

“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support th”