When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a universal concept. So, it's something that interests me and I'll probably revisit it if I get the chance to do the child soldier film because I think it's one of the most important scripts I've written. It's just too dark to do as a film right now. I need to do something a bit different.

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

I don't really put trophies out. I don't keep trophies around my apartment.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.

Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike, you're always learning new things, you're gonna face new challenges and when you face new challenges you'll have an answer for them.