When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.