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I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to do with the writing.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.