I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.

When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly, you look at this movie which is every scene you wrote, every line of dialogue you wrote and you want to kill yourself the minute you see it. It's like, 'How did I write something so horrible?'

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'