I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's made later on.

Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.