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

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.

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.

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

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

In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking for them.

I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.