I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

I have demons you can't even imagine.

The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.