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.

If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?

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.

For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.

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

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.