I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.