My films do very well on home video.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.