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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.