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

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?

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.

Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.

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.

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.

Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.