Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

Too many actors are trying to be cool: they're trying to do it with their hair, trying to do it with the color, trying to do it with clothes, or some bullshit attitude you're either cool or you're not, that is my theory. If you have to try, it is too late.

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.