Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

I've led a very eclectic life.