I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.