Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.