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I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

The script is just a blueprint.

I'm good with a script.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.