You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

I need eclectic people in my life.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.