In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its most critical arenas - which is the screenplay.

I thought 'Gone Baby Gone' was really modern in showing a couple going on an adventure.

The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC's job?

It's so hard to shoot wealth. It doesn't show up on film.

There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.