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'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

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.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

The audience, that's who I care about.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.