I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

I took a lot of writing courses.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.

In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.