As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.

If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that's wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, 'Let's do that again tomorrow.'

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.