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.

I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one, I think to myself: 'why in the world do I think I know how to do this?'

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

I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

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

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.