Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

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

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.